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Gerbi was born in Zsitomir, Ukraine. Intrigued by math and physics, Gerbi pursued a degree in
Mechanical Engineering, receiving her Masters from the St. Petersburg Marine Technical
University in Russia. After working several years as an engineer, Gerbi relocated to Budapest,
Hungary, where she met her husband and started a family.
Always interested in the arts and acknowledging her creative side, Gerbi worked to learn the
language of her new country and landed a position with the National Puppet Theater in Budapest
as a marionette maker. When her husband was accepted to the University of Miami’s Ph.D
program in Musicology, the family relocated to Miami, where Gerbi has lived and worked since.
After several years of working and exhibiting in ceramics, Gerbi received her M.F.A. in
Ceramics from Florida Atlantic University. She has gone on to receive numerous awards in
showings and juried exhibitions of her work.
Porcelain possesses a unique ability to become translucent, to filter and radiate light through its
surface. As a clay artist I attribute at least three layers of meaning to the porcelain pots I create.
At the conceptual level, they are metaphoric vessels to receive, to hold and to share light. At the
level of artistic expression, they are objects embodying a sense of beauty, distilled in me through
years of study and observation. At the level of everyday reality, they are simple and useful
utensils, active assistants in our mundane existence.
The interaction of Nature and the creative human spirit is the greatest source of inspiration in my
work. Composite memories of pine- and cedar-covered hills surrounding the Baikal lake in
Siberia, of the stillness of Armenian mountains, of the watery grays, pale blues and pinks of St.
Petersburg's magnificent buildings, of the curves of its countless rivers, canals and bridges--all
of these find reflection in the forms and colors of my work. –Gerbi Tsesarskaia |
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