Figurative Bronze Artist Gabrielle Fischer Horvath was born in Hungary and fled to Canada with her mother during the 1956 revolution.  Ms. Horvath’s education in art has spanned the last twenty five years in various parts of Canada and the United States.

She currently resides in Toronto and continues her work throughout the Niagara region. Her art education includes working with international artists and teachers such as:

Attila Keszei – Toronto On.
Art Student’s League N.Y.
C.W. Post University  N.Y.   
Scottsdale School of Art - Arizona.

During her ten year residence in New York, one of her private commissions was to create a bust of boxing great Jake LaMotta of “Raging Bull” fame.  Mr. LaMotta referred her to numerous other boxing “greats” such as Ken Norton, Archie Moore and more recently Canadian Walk of Fame - George Chuvalo.

In the early 90’s Ms. Horvath experimented with a new form of imagery, very prominent in the art movement of the 1960’s called “hyperrealism”. Primarily self thought in this field, she feels this application compliments her skills as a sculptor.

The “Genesis” Series is the result of creative experimentation in bronze casting.
 
Ms. Horvath’s original sculptures in clay, plaster and acrylic’s have been exhibited at The Meisner Foundry, The Long Island Art League and at numerous solo and group shows in the Toronto area.  
Currently residing in Brampton and traveling between her studio in Toronto and foundry in Vineland, Ontario.

Artist's Statement

"Creating artistic pieces in the studio and completing them in the foundry, especially pouring the liquid bronze is the most freeing and exhilarating experience in the creative process. It’s the element of the un-known as well as the danger in what I do. I work in reverse….so I don’t really see what I’m creating till I’m done. 
 
I find the human form to be truly inspiring. Finding new ways of emulating our human existence connects me to generations of artists from the past. Artists who saw fit to carve, chisel, mold and recreate the beauty of the body. Works we hold in high regard…lasting hundreds and thousands of years.
 
The surface of my bronze work is highly textured and multifaceted. Each viewing is a new discovery of pattern and color.
 
There seems to be contradiction in this work… bronze is hard and permanent, yet there is fluidity in these sensuous forms. Your eyes find something new with each viewing.

No two pieces are the same by the sheer nature of the process.
 
The canvas is splashed with liquid bronze the way Pollock would have painted.
Like the use of a painters brush, dripped, splashed and flowing but always with deliberate application.

Future projects will continue to evolve with the incorporation of other metals and mediums.
 
I feel truly energized by the possibilities."

Gabrielle Fischer Horvath