Gabrielle Dobrzelewski

April 2025

My paintings serve as diary entries – cataloguing the self, the internal landscape, and the presences of those who surround me. Representation serves as a tool to explore larger ideas, acting as a point of departure to delve into the spiritual unseen. Light and color lend themselves to exploring the otherworldly. Desire, self-actualization, anxiety, femininity, dream logic, resistance, pain, queerness, and the invisible threads that connect us to one another run through my work. Stories and sensations, pulled from the well of my lived experience, metamorphose into a visual world that captures quiet yet tense moments of emotional liminality. 

Originally from Northern Michigan, Gabrielle Dobrzelewski (b. 1999) is a painter and educator currently based out of Philadelphia, PA. She attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 2022 with a Certificate in Painting. Her work has been exhibited in various venues in Philadelphia and NYC, and has been published in Create! Magazine, I Like Your Work, Antlers Zine, Booooom, and Divide Magazine. 

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