Gisela Savdie

Gisela Savdie was born in Venezuela and educated in Colombia. While working as a Dentist, she studied painting and drawing in Bellas Artes School of the Arts and with private teachers. Photography was always part of her profession for teaching purposes.

She moved to South Florida and became a BFA from the International Fine Arts College in Miami, and she is a Masters of Arts from Barry University. Her photographs are mainly sill lives from her own compositions. The influence of the traditions from the town where she grew up is evident, such as the use of masks that reveal the dual character of the human condition or the use of fruits and animals associated with human features.

Exhibitions:

2003, “Carnival”, Q Lounge, Aventura, Florida.
2002, “Masks and Still Lives”, Hadassah (Simcha Chapter Convention), Aventura, Florida.

2002, “Masks and Masquerades”, Colombian Consulate, Coral Gables, Florida.

2001, “Unplugged”, a BFA show, D.A.S.H. Gallery, Miami, Florida.

1995, “Talent Exhibition” Centro Israelita Filantropico”, Barranquilla, Colombia.

Awards:

Finalist 21 Annual Collage Photography Contest, 2001.

Finalist 21st Annual Spring Photography Contest, 2001.

Articles and Publications:

People Magazine of “El Heraldo”, Barranquilla, Colombia, 1996.

Best of Collage Photography, Photographers Forum, Santa Barbara, Ca, 2001.

Best of Photography Annual, Santa Barbara, Ca, 2001.

“I’ve always been concerned with the duality of the human character, with the face or the mask as a mediator between the known and the unknown, and a mediator between our inner self and the outside world. I’m still in a process of exploration about the human ability of concealing or revealing, about the myths and reality, about the forbidden fantasy, about the terrors and the joys in each of us”.