Eszter Györy

Since 1977, artist Eszter Györy has been exhibiting her work in the United States. In her earlier painting, epic myths, folk fablaux, and landscapes of the fantastic dominated her canvases. Later she treated religious archetypes from both Old and New Testaments. Her figures and compositions, informed by Byzantine Iconography and stylized curiously by an earlier Renaissance manner, depict with subtle strokes a blend of the leitmotifs in brilliant, eye-debauching hues. This world is a bit remote, perhaps a bit grotesque, and as the artist herself admits, "often a vision of the third eye." But thes creations hint at the insuperable unity in all things. Abstract, sweepting strokes, oil, canvas, wood, the natural material of her pieces are for Eszter Györy the means to a quixotic landscape which calls attention to the blindness of man, who would triumph over nature, nature that emerges from the background as the leading player in the variegated drama.

Her latest work reflects all of her worlds, where color becomes the most salient mode of expression, where the drawing - although not seen - can be felt, touched, forming a scaffold under each painting. The Angels!

Dr. Paul Banszky Pal, Art Historian
Magyar Naiv Muveszek Muzeum
Direktora Kecskemet, Hungary