Ginette Laboz

Ginette Laboz is a Brooklyn-raised, self-taught artist known for her distinctive confectionary tool decorated paintings—highly tactile works that merge pointillism with sculptural texture. Using piping tools and thick, glossy pigments, she builds her surfaces mark by mark, creating canvases that rise like frosted relief and shimmer with movement.

Working from her New York studio, Laboz reinterprets cinematic moments and iconic scenes, translating film stills and nostalgic imagery into layered, sensory landscapes. By slowing down what is typically fleeting, she transforms familiar visuals into permanent, dimensional emotional imprints. Each piped gesture becomes its own unit of meaning—precise, playful, and rooted in rhythm and intuition.

Her background in psychology from The New School informs her approach to repetition, color, and the emotional narratives embedded within the depicted imagery. Themes of femininity, memory, transformation, and the quiet drama of ordinary life run throughout her work, expressed through a visual language that is both meticulous and expressive.

"I studied psychology and math in college, two fields built on patterns, structure, and the desire to understand how things fit together. But throughout those years, the place I returned to for comfort was always art. Painting became my private form of therapy, the one space where my mind could quiet down and translate emotion into something physical. The only challenge was completion. Traditional painting never felt “done” to me. A brushstroke could always be changed, a color could always be adjusted, and a line could always be refined. My brain craved the satisfaction of finishing something, yet conventional painting invited endless possibilities. That paradox made it hard for me to feel at peace with the finality of a piece.

Using baking tools allows me to create a form of pointillism that is sculptural, rhythmic, and deeply satisfying. Every dot becomes a decision that cannot be undone, letting me complete something while also embracing the meditative repetition of placing tens of thousands of tiny moments side by side. In a way, my technique mirrors how I process life. Dot by dot, moment by moment, creating something whole through the accumulation of small, intentional choices.

My work transforms cinematic moments and iconic scenes into tactile emotional landscapes. Using cake-decorating piping tools and repeated pointillist marks, I freeze fleeting visuals into textured, sculptural surfaces. Each gesture becomes an imprint playful, controlled, and intimate shaping familiar imagery into something newly felt"

Laboz continues to expand her body of work, exploring the intersection of fine art, craft, and contemporary material experimentation, while creating textured worlds that invite viewers to look closely, feel deeply, and see iconic scenes through a fresh, tactile lens.