Jeffly Gabriela Molina
Individual Works
b. Táchira, Venezuela Lives and works in Chicago
In 2018, Kavi Gupta presented the first major solo exhibition of paintings by Venezuela-born, Chicago-based artist Jeffly Gabriela Molina. Molina’s paintings wrestle with the alchemy between seeing and feeling—that is to say, between precise optical perception and the fleeting moments of memory and emotion that fill everyday life. Each composition is an amalgam of poetry, memory, personal experience and communal relationships—a metaphysical data point; a captured glimpse of a half remembered day dream.
Like Marianne Moore, Molina’s favorite poet, who was known both for imaginative language and precise diction, Molina developed an aesthetic position that is both poetic and structured. Her work is haunting, dreamlike, and conceptually open—yet meticulously constructed and thought out. She is inspired by the challenge of expressing ideas, which are inherently abstract, as pictures, which are inherently concrete. She strives to make each picture come alive, so viewers will see in it something that reminds them of themselves.
Solo Exhibitions
2018Suspiro, Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL
2016Efforts of Affection, Kruger Gallery Chicago, Chicago, IL
2015My Business is Circumference, Kruger Gallery Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014The Moth & The Light, Maybe, Sunday gallery, Chicago, IL | Curators: Jason Guo, McKenzie Thompson
Group Exhibitions
2017Fabricating Truth, COMO Metropolitan Miami Beach, FL | Curators: Alexandra Fowle, Ysabe Pinyol
Wasteland Dream, LVL3, Chicago, IL
City Remix, Concrete Space & Ker Gallery, Doral, FL | Curators: Christopher Barake, Marcelo Llobell
Wild Cuts, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016ADAD/ a Soiree in Commemoration, Abteilung für Alles Andere, Berlin, Germany
MFA Show 2016, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, Chicago, IL
2015Printing Strategies -‐ The Voice of the Medium, Salzburg International Academy, Salzburg, Austria
2014Yes, you’re in Heaven, Chicago, IL | Curator: Sara Van de Walle and Jeffly Gabriela Molina
20133rd Nadine’s Gallery Annual Exhibition for Female Artists, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain| Curator: Nadine AlShaikh
2012People Vs. Space, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL | Curators: Bo Rodda, John Manning, and Jaume Plensa
Where you and I End and we Begins, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, USA | BFA Exhibition Fall 2012
2011Chairtime, Public Performance & Installation Art, Chicago, IL USA
2009Magick Night, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL USA | Invitational
Drawings & Paintings, Artseen, Miami, FL | Jurors: Aramis O’Reilly, Associate Professor, and Maggy Cuesta, Dean of Visual Arts, NWSA
2008Being a box in a BOX, Performance Installation, Miami Dade College, Wolfson, Miami, FL
Rising Stars, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL | Jurors: Mark Coetzee, Rubell Family Collection Director, and Maggy Cuesta, Dean of Visual Arts, NWSA
2006Actualidad Plastica Tachirense, Manuel Osorio Velasco Gallery, Táchira, Venezuela | Invitational
Arte Vertice Gallery, San Cristobal, Táchira, Venezuela | Curator: Freddy Pereira