Artist Statement: Music is everywhere in NYC: it floats from windows, booms from car stereos. We hear it in stores, on the subway, walking through a parade or street fair. I wanted to capture the atmospheric quality of music as well as the excitement and sparkle of the city by using Swarovski crystals, mirrored tiles, and up cycled CDs.
Native New Yorker Gilly Gil-Lugo is an artist who combines the charm of children’s picture books with the elegance of fashion illustration. She has a B.F.A. in Illustration from F.I.T., and has worked in both the fashion and toy industries. 1n 1996 she started Making A Scene Decorative Painting, creating one of a kind murals for residential and public spaces in the tri state area. Gilly believes that every surface has a potential to be transformed into a work of art and invites you to "think outside the frame".
