Interested in the timeless and disparate associations assigned to black, Gabriel J. Shuldiner describes his work as ‘bruteminimalism®’: a concept situated somewhere between the abstract and absurd. His physically powerful, s[r]eductively delicate ‘hybridsculpturalpaintings®’ trigger both immediate engagement and visceral reaction, conjuring images of voids in space and postapocalyptic futures... Applied in thick layers on a multitude of substrates, Gabriel J. Shuldiner meticulously bends, scrapes and sculpts his proprietary black material, creating mysterious areas both smooth and rough that proportionately reflect, refract, distort and absorb observable levels of electromagnetic radiation... A native New Yorker, Gabriel J. Shuldiner was born and raised in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business and Philosophy from New York University and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Sculpture from Parsons the New School for Design. Upon graduating from Parsons, Gabriel J. Shuldiner was selected by the Bronx Museum of the Arts 'Artist in the Marketplace' emerging artist program, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts studio residency program, where he spent several years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at select galleries, museums, institutions and avant-garde boutiques. Gabriel J. Shuldiner lives and works in Manhattan’s West Chelsea, where he currently maintains his studio.