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Mirage, 2005
acrylic on board 32" x 45" |
Since 1994, Gail's work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions in New England and beyond, including her recent inclusion in ANA 30, the Holter Museum of Art's annual national juried exhibition, juried by internationally known art critic Peter Schjeldahl. Her primary media are charcoal, acrylics and oil media, including oil stick. Although often quite abstract in form or composition, her work always refers to objective sources, whether the figure model, the landscape, or most recently, photographs of the interior of her home.
"My work explores the edge between realism and abstraction, between relative and absolute realities. To me, art-making is an intimate contemplation of the phenomenal world, and can be a vehicle to deeper truths, whether of the nature of the self or the nature of our daily reality. Beings and objects are seen to be constantly changing, caught in the cycles of creation and destruction that move this world. A world which, unexamined, can seem all too solid. Perhaps I can reveal their original face, or catch them in the process of becoming something else. I believe that visual artists may act as "see-rs" in the most mundane sense of the word, as we look deeply into and at our world, and invite others to engage deeply with the resulting work. Ideally, we endeavor together to embrace all that we find raucous, scary, slippery, and speeding in it, as well as all that is comfortable and beautiful. We may even discover the subtle joy of a sense of connection in this experience we share, and in the possibility of a new apprehension of some portion of our world." |