Me
Gavrilo Gnatovich was born in Cleveland, Ohio to a large Serbian family. He currently lives in Columbus, Ohio and teaches animation at the Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD). He received his MFA in painting from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2013. Although, he has been a professional animation director/designer for most of his career, he has continued his pursuit of fine arts since graduating from Boston University School of Fine Arts with a BFA in painting in 1979. His first solo exhibition, Time Codes was held at the Olgethorpe Gallery in Savannah, GA in July of 2013.
Artist’s Statement
Time is the support on which our lives and significance get painted.
My work has always been a flickering light on the shadow of time; a face slap of presence out of the unrelenting march of absence. It casts out the meaningless drone and holds in an iron embrace the significance of the noted time and a sacred place. Woven deeply in my artistic fabric, whether animated, photographed or painted, my work memorializes the radiant soulful light of the single cherished moment; the pinprick of experience against the fraying end of memory lost.
