A personal statement:
(1) Briefly describe your creative process. How do you develop and finish a piece?
Irina Gorbman is a meditative, metaphysical painter. Her oil on canvas abstractions
are powerful, energetic, and paradoxical, exuding a brutal strength through harmonious
colorations.
Formally trained in mechanical engineering (Moscow, USSR) and international relations
(Fletcher/Tufts), Ms. Gorbman turned to art in an effort to rewire her brain after a mini-stroke. A
self-taught artist, her process is a meditation that brings higher energies onto the canvas. The
more one looks, the more one sees–mountains, rivers, people, animals—yet all unintentionally
painted. Ms. Gorbman intuitively selects colors and creates abstracts in a gestural, automatic
style. Ms. Gorbman believes that art is a battery that can recharge a body and elevate the spirit;
she manifests and Creates the Healing Power of ArtTM.
When the canvas is finished, I step back to meet and greet the painting. If I see a face or a live
creature, then I know that the painting is completed.
(2) What are some of your artistic goals?
I Create the Healing Power of Art. I would like to bring higher energies from above to the canvas, and
share them with as many people as possible. I want people to feel uplifted and elevated upon
looking at my paintings. My paintings work as a battery for recharging and balancing inner body
energies, serving as a cup of coffee, figuratively-speaking. My artistic goal is to fine-tune the
energies of people, the space they live and work, with the higher energies available to us - and do
that via my artworks.
(3) What would you consider your most significant artistic accomplishment to date?
I am a self-taught artist, and one of my first major accomplishments was being accepted to the
Architectural Digest Design Show, New York City in 2014, which became my "diploma." In addition to
the following shows and publications, I believe that my greatest accomplishment is the feedback I
receive from my clients and observers:
“I really like your work as an abstract metaphysical artist, amazing that you are an outsider
painter, your abstractions are powerfully energetic, exude brutal strength and harmonious
colorations.”
“I feel the energy, it uplifts the spirit of our house...it used to look like a fishing bowl...I feel a lot
of light energy and warmth after putting your works on the walls.”
“There is such an optimistic, happy feeling, and I see water, trees, mountains, and caves
everywhere. Your works are live, they talk and breathe, they are very kind.”
“In one of your works I saw a little bit of Joan Mitchell City Landscape, in others, similarities with
de Kooning and the Color Field movement.»
«Your Open Heart painting, the colors, the brush strokes reminds me of Edvard Munch's «The
Scream»
«Your works are about color and sound. Let the beautiful energy manifest itself»
(4) Why do you create art?
I can not live without creating art. It’s a meditation and part of my everyday life. I believe that I am on a
mission of elevating the energy, whenever it is possible. We live in a fast-paced technological
society, and the role of art has become an act of self-care; whether we create, observe or support.
