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NEW DIMENSION ART
Shani Grosz, who’s more than an accomplished fashion designer with her very own collection, today showed off another talented side, Shani is a painter, whose portraits are at the next level. Shani has been a major player in fashion for at least 2 decades, creating women’s collections for all price demographics, hosting red carpets, and styling celebrities, as well as New York City and network T.V. news anchor personalities. Now, DANIEL PLUS LAUREN experiences a powerful fusion of painting that hasn’t been seen, Swarovski and 3D elements that show off Shani’s artful gift.
Right on 39th Street off 8th Avenue, 17 stories up, the Shani space is an oasis with bold and vivid paintings greeting you at the door. An aqua dress stands tall at the doorway with one of Shani’s paintings right beside it, where a town overlooks a river with bushels of flowers and the sky to provide a warm welcome not only in the painting, but into Shani’s New York space.
DPL encounters a collection of cupcake portraits which all have their meanings and phases of life. Cupcake definitions consist of its own colors, frostings, toppings, and sprinkles, this is where the Swarovski contribution enters in, tiny colored diamonds placed according to which color the part of the painting is.
Let’s talk about the cupcake variations starting with a simple golden cake color with pink frosting and a cherry on top. Shani uses Swarovski pink and black tiny diamonds to fit part of the painting, perfectly lining up with the painting’s mood. Shani worked on this as being a coming of age portrait, adolescence showing off the blossoming of a girl becoming a woman, finding out what it’s like to be outgoing, and to be in love.
Red continues is the next cupcake portrait, but with white, black, and red drizzles of paint raining down on an all red cupcake, this cupcake represents a breakup. Diamonds at the bottom are picked strategically to be black, silver, and partially red, representing heartbreak, and love gone wrong.
Silver and a big bright birthday candle play a vital role in this diamond-less cupcake, this is a cupcake about reaching the mature part of your life. You’ve reached the silver part of your life, somewhere in your 50’s, 60’s, or 70’s, where you don’t need to impress anyone anymore. You are absolutely satisfied with where you are in this stage of life, vanilla and chocolate simplicity, and a candle to celebrate another year of life.
Shani and the next level of paintings factor in with the use of three dimensional thinking, no special glasses are needed, but Shani uses a special acrylic to layer on the uplifting effect. A tall-standing painting of man and woman hand in hand also stands for a happy ending. Aqua and crystal diamonds line up the sides while visible coats of paints play out the sand, but in delightful random colors.
The art of 3D painting with Shani is to go with the mood of the idea, like a couple holding an umbrella and kissing in the rain, and the uplifting acrylics play in as storm clouds in gray and black.
Then you have 2 portraits consisting of what could be Everglades over water. For all intention, we see a bed of flowers, lilies, daisies, and such colored off-white, violet, indigo, and black. It took more than a year for Shani to work on this painting, where acrylics are extremely enhanced to be visible in every working layer possible. Plus, more than 3,000 Swarovski diamonds are layered on this one painting, matching the color of the uplifting acrylics playing out on this portrait.
Paris is the city of light, the city of love, and the city where the Moulin Rouge is located. Shani has the Eiffel Tower perfectly painted, with Swarovski silver diamonds lined up and down on the tower, perfectly describing the purpose. Then, Shani and DPL pay a visit to the Moulin Rouge. Not only will you get a show with beautiful costumes and dancing can-can girls all out, but you get the most uplifting black and white work of Shani with color you can find that represents Paris. DPL would also like to add that Moulin Rouge is one of the key inspirations of Parisian inspired dance troupe, The Cabarat Burlesque, a class you can also take at Broadway Dance Center.
Taking it back to fashion, as fashion is the inspiration for all of Shani art work, Shani uses her paintings for fabric inspiration. For instance, the cherry on top we’ve seen on the cupcakes, also have its own standalone painting. Two cherries stemmed together over water and sky in 3D inspired variation play a vital role in being a rich painting. The cherry portrait is spun off exactly as is on fabric, which could become a dress, or another item which Shani sees in the vision.
Shani’s conception of her paintings start on a wall of sketches, sketches that primarily are for all of Shani fashion. Shani creates pieces for all price demographics, consisting of high-priced, medium-priced, and affordable pieces that every woman could feel good in. Shani’s showroom is home to the finished dresses Shani makes here on 39th Street off 8th Avenue. Options include lace, sequin, rose satin details, black slimming dresses, and laser cuts perfectly shaping silhouette, asymmetrical, and open cut out shapes to show off layered colored base underneath torso.
CONCLUSION
Shani Grosz brings you into her world, a world filled with an exuberant amount of joy, with the key takeaway of leaving you in a better place than you were before you walked in. Shani’s art is vivid, and moves forward with a whole new idea or painting, achieving high tech depth with any device to login to in real time. The inspiration of Shani’s rich, uplifting, and vibrant art comes from Shani’s first love, fashion. Fashion and common human growths, dilemmas, and love are what drive Shani’s art to be the must see destination you have to check out. Shani’s art talent is mainly because Shani creates fashion for all women, no matter the take home pay here in New York City, or all of America. All in all, you will come into Shani’s space a changed woman or man, leaving with new ideas to lead your life, and opening the door to new opportunities.