Artist’s Statement: Everything has its testing point in the eye, an organ which eventually involves the whole personality and as much of the world as can be got into it.  To see the world rightly, to learn to 'stare' at it, is difficult, sight is a moral sense.  As human beings we are apt to see only what we want to see so we must have our eyes open if we are going to see 'what is' for what it is.  My aim as an artist is to use the eyes of my heart to penetrate this concrete world order to realize at its depths the ultimate reality; and to render the sublime - that aesthetic experience of being overwhelmed, filled with awe at something so majestic it evokes a sense of the One who created this astonishing universe.

Artist Biography:  Gangi is committed to creating art that invites the viewers to enter into a visual dialogue with still life and landscapes.  Born in Indiana she was educated at the Hartford Art School, Montclair State College and Syracuse University where she received a BFA and MFA.  Her fields include both fine arts and art education.  She was faculty for 27 years at Syracuse University, Studio Arts and Design Programs.  She lectures and exhibits regionally and nationally. 

In 1998, Gangi was one of three finalists chosen by Artist Magazine for their yearly competition.  In 2000, she was featured in the Pastel Artist International magazine.  Design magazine, CMYK, has featured her work several times and in 2001, she was awarded the honorable Harris Popular Award, from the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester NY.  In 2003, Gangi was the featured artist in American Artist magazine and American Artist Highlights Still Life magazine featured her pastels in 2005.  The Pastel Journal awarded Gangi the Grand Prize for use of pastels in April 2005 and International Artist featured Gangi in their spring 2006 issue. The "Calvin Institute of Christian Worship" website featured Gangi's work in April 2006; also in 2006, Gangi's editorial artwork was in "Pray!" and in "Discipleship Journal".  A number of her pastel paintings are published in the books, Pure Color and Finding Your Visual Voice and on book covers by Crown & Covenant Press and Shepherd Press.  The Comstack Review and The Stone Canoe Journal of Arts will feature Gangi's work in 2008. 

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