About the artist:

Estelle Ginsburg's works are clustered with luxurious configurations of geometric design. The structure is enormously complex and the organization of the disparate elements is such that only a very accomp. lished artist could combine such difference without destroying the integrity and cohesiveness of the canvas and confusing the eye of the viewer. Like Matisse, Ms. Ginsburg is totally absorbed with pattern. But in Matisse's work the configurations on carpets, wallpapers and textiles destroy and confuse our comprehension of shape. The seen world is transformed by them into a state of anarchy and flux. Matisse dissolved and resolved form by using properties of pattern. Ms. Ginsburg's usage of pattern is much more straightforward. She uses varying configurations to simplify and flatten forms. The forms read as if they were three dimensional but upon closer examination we see that Ms. Ginsburg has simply combined and juxtaposed pattern fragments to create the illusion of form. Ms. Ginsburg is also fond of rendering two sides of an object differently. In her work this is something of a decorative device, but it has its roots in cubist painting where vari. ous views of an object are placed one against another in a kind of continuum. The women who inhabit Ms. Ginsburg's interiors appear to be spoiled Oriental concubines who are deliberately isolated from the world by their masters. Their poses are slothful and indolent. The paintings have a rich, sensuous, and warm texture. In spite of their atmospheric sensuality, these paintings are extremely architectonic. The patterns of wallpaper and floor tiles, the arabesques formed by the outline of the furniture, are rigidly formalistic and stylized. Born in St. Louis, Missouri