Sticks and Stones

Sticks & Stones is an off site exhibition presented in the artist’s bedroom in Fresh Pond, New York, where she has been living for the past year.

Gitte Maria Möller (b. 1991, Cape Town, South Africa) is a painter, multi-disciplinary artist and pre-school teacher. She graduated with a BAFA from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2015, where she received the Judy Steinberg Painting Prize for her graduate show. She has exhibited locally in South Africa, as a well as internationally across Europe, the UK and the United States. She lives and works between Cape Town and New York City. Gitte uses a range of different mediums and painterly devices to explore the symbolic and numinous possibilities of picture-making. Drawing from dream symbology, early video games and the natural and urban landscape, Gitte’s work holds a complex array of signs, symbols, and archetypes in suspension. Through her work Gitte strives to form a union between her inner and outer reality, creating a personalized arena for devotion in her pictures. In this intricate visual space, she offers a distracted meditation on a world interpolated by empathy and apathy, freedom and vulnerability, and the struggle between g00d and 3vil.