Teresa Gostanza

“I remember as a young artist seeing Dali’s ‘The Persistence of Time’, melting clocks and re-imagined objects. This was a monumental shift for me. I thought this is it. I am not here to paint the conventional, but to go beyond the analytical and into the subconscious. I knew then that I am a surrealist”, says Gostanza.

Tapping into the energy fields of a multi universe, she paints windows into a world that exists or might not, imagery that opens our minds. Her strength as a storyteller is the command she has to remember and to paint her dreams. She is an original and offers a feminine element to the questions we are becoming aware of asking. Questions like, what is true reality?

In the lineage of Salvador Dali and Giorgio de Chirico, Gostanza’s work expresses the dream, the world unseen by the conditioned mind. Works like the ‘Unweaving of Time and Space’ are both ancient and futuristic, a parallel she is very familiar with. What sets her apart from the grandfathers of surrealism is her optimism and a sense of understanding the evolutionary period mankind is going through. “When I paint I receive codes and direction. It’s as if I am called to make tangible a message beyond my own understanding,” says Gostanza.