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A Conversation with Françoise Gilot
Posted on Sept. 10, 2016
“What makes you smile?” our photographer asks Françoise Gilot. Her serious expression suddenly shifts into a delighted grin. Everyone laughs. We are in the Colas Engel Art Gallery in North Park, where Gilot’s paintings are on exhibit in advance of Symphony at Salk, the annual concert and benefit for the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences. The internationally-known artist and author has served as Honorary Chair since the event’s inception in 1994, and her strong, dynamic works have been featured as the event’s signature posters. “I paint for me,” says Gilot who began studying art as a child. “It’s a natural thing. It’s a way of expressing both my ideas and also my passions.”