User:Caroline Geys/sandbox

Caroline Geys born April 30, 1980 in Wilrijk, Belgium. Geys is an abstract architectural artist and contemporary painter, living and working in Los Angeles, California.

Geys has had numerous well-received exhibitions in New York, Florida, and Raleigh, North Carolina.

She received her Bachelor's in Business Administration, majoring in Marketing and Real Estate in 2005 from Florida Atlantic University. Although she took a few different type of art classes throughout college, she is a self-taught artist who developed her own style sans influences from tradition fine art educators or coursework.

Geys has long been inspired by the urban landscape of both cities she's visited, and cities she's dreamed of visiting. Her first trip to New York City in 1999 provided her first architectural creative spark, and has continued to serve as a source of ideas since then. Recently her work has become more non-representational, however, it still draws from the same sources as her previous, more literal architectural compositions. Geys's last two series are more focused on exploring the various individual forms that make up a city in a macro and micro dynamic: architecture, topography, cultural and physical infrastructure, dynamic human activity and organic nature. Furthermore, every line, dot, and color illustrates a connection made among these elements as they meld and recreate each other within this found composition.

Color is an important part of Geys's expression, so her palette changes fluidly with her mood and the way she would like to translate her vision at a particular time.

Geys works at Studio Pali Fekete architects [SPF:architects] as a Marketing Specialist, and is concurrently and ambitiously striving to make her artistic imprint in the West Coast.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 Grow Till Tall Elephant / Ann 330 Gallery / Los Angeles, CA / Forthcoming - July

2012 Grow Till Tall Elephant Installation "The Box" / The Standard Hotel / Los Angeles, CA / Forthcoming - August

2008 Favelas / Residences of Gansevoort South, Art Basel / Miami Beach, FL 2007  From here to there / Circa 28, 2nd Floor Gallery Space, Wynwood Art Walk / Miami, FL

Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Sketchbook Project World Tour / Brooklyn Art Library / Various Cities

2011 Mark Moore Gallery / 826 LA Benefit / Los Angeles, CA 2011  Independent Thinkers, Art Basel / Miami, FL 2010  Art Miami, Art Basel / Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery / Miami, FL 2010  Mi Cielo, Art Basel / Miami, FL 2010  ArtHamptons / Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery / Bridgehampton, NY 2010  Summer Group Exhibition / Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery / New York, NY 2010  artchitexture and photography / Wynwood Lofts Art Complex & artennae global art consulting / Miami, FL 2009  Juliette's Lofts / Inter-Design Building, Art Basel / Miami, FL 2009  Signals: artchitexture and photography / Wynwood Lofts Art Complex & artennae global art consulting / Miami, FL

2008 Inaugural Opening / Gallery Jax / Miami, FL

Collections
The Brooklyn Art Library / Brooklyn, NY

Katherina Rich Perlow Collection / New York, NY

We Love Colors Collection / Miami, FL