December 2015 Newsletter At Sixes and Sevens: Welcome to our Art Gallery

In This Issue

Norman Gorbaty

Le but n'est rien;le chemin, c'est tout - Jules Michelet.

"When I think of my work two words come to mind: Movement and Drawing. These concepts are recurring themes that I try to comprehend, study and explore."

And it's...(A)bout a life being born in the doing. About giving integrity to that which is being born, to hear what it wants to be, to honor it - to have dialogue with that which is being created - simply to be able to talk with it."

"Why the need to explore a specific subject? I confess I don't know. Something strikes my fancy and that is it! The finished images are unfulfilled, no more than beginnings, notations for continued search, then or at some later time."

See more of Norman Gorbaty's Art

December 2015 Newsletter

dedicated to Norman Gorbaty and Joy, his wife

"A brilliant young art student, lauded by many as the next best talent to rock the art establishment, opts to sidestep his fine art career for a more stable and secure livelihood in commercial graphics. He steadily climbs the ladder of success, a shining star in a competitive industry full of stars, and eventually opens his own thriving design studio. He is known to everyone as the innovative and successful ad man and graphic designer - credits for motion pictures, museum posters, magazine covers and book illustrations. But all the while he is leading another life. Still passionately devoted to his drawing, painting and carving, year after year he toils away in his private world of wood shavings, oil pigments and pastel dust.

Only after fifty years does this remarkable artist, now in the twilight of his ad career, step out into the light with his paintings, drawings and sculpture to meet the scrutiny of the public eye." - Charles D. Noyes

And from Norman to Joy: "my late 'old beauty', for having endured me for over fifty years. For taking care of the life tasks that would have given me less time to 'do' things. For having supported me in the doing and in her near successful effort to make me a mensch. For your love and support, I love her still."

Norman Gorbaty's "Creation Series", described by the artist: "Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? The eternal questions we ask ourselves. The passage of 'from' to 'to.' From innocence to "reality." Creation - it's about breaking the rules and finding oneself in a different world - outside comfortable known borders. A world for which we are now responsible. Where we become the caretakers."

Judaica

Norman Gorbaty's Judaica, is cataloged in "To Honor My People" published in 2010 by North American Thought Combine, Inc. In the artist's own words: "In all my doing, Jewish themes keep emerging. Not unusual in that I am a Jew. These images speak to the suffering of my people, and the contributions they have made to mankind".

"We owe it to those, who know nothing of our road that they be taught never to forget. Along with our sufferings as 'Jobs' of history, we have made, beyond our numbers, great impact on what we call civilization."

"And so, using the forms, shapes and symbols of Judaism, I honor my people"

Works of a Modern Master

Looking Forward

The Library

Please contact the agents of Norman Gorbaty for further information, published catalogues, exhibitions and sales.
Ben Gorbaty, thoughtcombine@
gmail.com
Shelley Kaiser Gorbaty
thoughtcombine@gmail.com

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