Justine Serebrin’s art is awash in light. Her work exudes light as a transformative feature, it glows inwardly and surges outwardly with a brightness of color as she creates images that evoke sunbeams, reflective water, and glass prisms casting rainbows.
Working in spray paint and thickly textured swirls of water-based oil, Serebrin’s images dance with a mystical quality and draw viewers to her use of sacred geometry. While her paintings are narrative and distinctly of the sea, they are also spiritual, as she strives to draw viewers into a realm beyond or within our own intellectual comprehension. Many of her pieces include what the artist identifies as “towers of magic” that seem suspended in a lustrously dream-like state.
Perhaps the dreamy serendipity infused in her work is no surprise. Serebrin begins her work with meditation, visualisation, and then a strong formulation of the images; many paintings seem to unfold as if in a visual trance. They seem tidal, flowing visually and inhabited with shapes that evoke comparisions to flowers and sea creatures, floating in the water of imagination. Some of her works’ inner glow is through her use of startling, shifting colors. Like an ocean wave or a gemstone changeable in light, the works are multi-faceted and the palette shifts in a dance of water spray.
Serebrin herself speaks of the “high vibrational energies” in her work; many pieces she says are created as “portals for meditation.” The invitation to visually enter a higher spiritual realm or meditative plane seems deeply personal both to artist and viewer. There’s a strong sense of engagement, as if Serebrin were personaly invivting viewers to set an intention, to use their own powers for beauty and a richer, more fulfilled life from within.
Along with her paintings, Serebrin has also created what she terms a “portable support for divine guidance” in a richly visual Rainbow Warrior Activation Deck that helps users to process their spiritual energy; she is also the force and founder of Earth Altar Studio, where clients can receive tattoos, piercing, and lasers.
Serebrin promises that Earth Altar’s work will bring an enhanced physical and spiritual self to the fore. The Eagle Rock studio invokes the idea of tattooing as an ancient spiritual process; Serebrin can channel a unique design symbolizing what a person wants to call into their lives. With that in mind, Serebrin also offers supportive information from researchers, spiritual teachers, healers, and others through her Higher Vibe Living, presenting content that she feels will assist one’s state of well-being and improve daily life.
In each of these endeavors and embedded in her artwork is the idea that Serebrin is not “only” an artist, but a transformative conduit of healing and spirituality. Her ocean images are related to her early SoCal years spend snorkling, when she first noticed troubling debris and decaying marine life on the shore. Seeking to honor what she calls the ocean’s “deep power” and supporting ocean awareness and stewardship are important aspects of her art. Having traveled the globe experiencing various beaches and seas, Serebrin incorporates sea creatures, water patterns and waves into her work.
In her recent body of work, The Sacred Sea, she focused on raising the awareness of our oceans and their fragility, as well as the risk posed to them. The artist has exhibited in museums from Louisiana to Texas as well as holding exhibitions in the Los Angeles area.
Among the standouts in her recent work are pieces such as “Sacred Sea City,” with pearly bubbles rising against a backdrop of a magical, open-shell shape; and “Ocean Oracle,” a painting the vibrates with purples and deep pinks with a golden heart opening like a gift at the center of the work.
Her images are both realistic and detailed, and yet amorphous in nature, taking viewers into uncharted spiritual waters filled with heightened color and light. Portal images create entrances into alternate realities as in “Lemuria Recativated,” below.
Serebrin gives new meaning to the term “enlightened artist” with graceful work that both reveals her own personal levels of enlightenment and growth, and offers a look at the potential for an enlightened world to viewers.
- Genie Davis; images courtesy of the artist and Shoebox PR.