Biography
Gail is a New York-based, award winning artist with a background in Art History and Education. Gail is presently studying at The Art Students League with Bruce Dorfman, and independently with Sian Robertson. Gail worked as a Museum Educator at The Cloisters and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as an educator in the New York City school system, and as a Yoga instructor.
Artist's Statement
I create abstract mixed media sculpture using up-cycled materials, vintage found objects, and household items.
My art has been an ongoing exploration of layering colors and shapes, the interaction of negative and positive space, and the combining of 2- and 3- dimensional forms. I strive for balance, simplicity and complexity, chaos and harmony. I have been further led to experimentation with light, shadow, and movement.
Lately I have been fascinated by the possibilities of string: taut, loose, wound, woven, raw, or painted, and it's incorporation into the circular form.
Exhibitions
- The Center at Maple Grove, Kew Gardens, NY, Full Circle Solo Exhibition , November 2022
Select Juried Group Shows
2025
- Free Your Mind: The Expansion, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
- Women of the Elements. Long Island City Artists, The Factory, LIC, NY
- Herstory: The Battle Continues, Viridian Artists, NY, NY
- Atlantic Gallery, LIC-A Perspectives, NY, NY
2024
- cOLD Times, Viridian Gallery, NY, NY
- Aqua Art Miami, With Gallery 14C, December 4-8, Miami, FLA
- Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue, Long Island City Artists, The Factory, LIC, NY
- Innovations, International Society of Experimental Artists Annual Juried Exhibition, Grand Haven, MI
- Detritus Upcycled, Viridian Gallery, NY, NY
- Art Lives Here: Collecting, An Art Fair, Westbeth Gallery, NY, NY
- The Art Students League Juried Selection (Red Dot) Exhibition, Gallery ONETWENTYEIGHT, NY, NY
- Grant and Merit Awards Exhibition, Phyllis Harriman Gallery, The Arts Students League, NY, NY
- Gramercy Art Show, Salmagundi Art Club, NY, NY
- Gallery 14C, Static/Motion, Jersey City, NJ
- New England Sculpture Association, Equinox: Passage from Dark to Light, online exhibition
- The Art Space at The Factory, LIC, NY, Long Island City Artists, Drawing Beyond the Surface
- Atlantic Gallery, LIC-Artists Members Show, New York, NY
- Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Metamorphosis: Recycled, Repurposed, Reimagined, Solomons, MD
- Viridian Gallery, Art from Detritus, New York, NY
- Westbury Arts, Works on Paper, Westbury, NY
- Birdhouse Gallery, Shapeshifters, Brooklyn, NY
2023
- 440 Gallery, Small Works Show, Brooklyn, NY
- The Art Space at The Factory, LIC, NY, Long Island City Artists, Abstract/Abstraction
- Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, 110th Annual Live Invitational Exhibition of Allied Artists of America
- Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY, Members Show
- Atlantic Gallery, NYC, Connections VII
- LIC-Artists, Last Call Pop-Up Exhibition
- Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), Recycle
- Belskie Museum, Closter, NJ, Mixed Media Exhibition
- The Art Space at The Factory, LIC, NY, Long Island City Artists Third Annual Drawing Exhibition: A Larger Idea
- Atlantic Gallery, NYC, Tentative Threads
2022
- Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, NYC, Holiday Wreath Exhibition
- Local Project, LIC, NY, Trash
- Culture Lab/Plaxall Gallery, LIC-Artists' Affordable Art Show
- Westbury Arts, Westbury, NY, Uncovered Treasures: Mixed Media Masterpieces
- Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), Wide Open
- Culture Lab/Plaxall Gallery, LIC-Artists A Spring Art Affair
- Westbury Arts, Westbury, NY, Tiempo Eterno - Timeless exhibition in celebration of Women's History month
2021
- Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, Holiday Wreath Exhibition
- Culture Lab/Plaxall Gallery, LIC-Artists' Affordable Art Show
- Atlantic Gallery, NYC, LIC-Artists Members Show
- AHA Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY, Viva La Memento Mori
- Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), Recycle
- AHA Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY, Summer Salon
- LIC-Artists’ Members Show, CultureLab/Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY
- AHA Fine Art, Made to Love (online)
- LIC-Artists, Culture Lab LIC, Queens Memory Project, and Queens Public Library: Queens 2020 Time Capsule Exhibition (online)
2020
- Local Project, LIC, NY: Soul Cakes (AHA Fine Art)
- New York School of the Arts online exhibition: The Light Beyond the Wall
- LIC-Artists: Spring Online Exhibition
- Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY: Creative Mosaic
- Atlantic Gallery, NYC: LIC-Artists Members Show
2019
- Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY: Off the Wall, Affordable Art Exhibition
- NAWA Gallery, NYC: New (Juried) Members Exhibition
- Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY: Fear III: Visiting Death
- Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY: Creative Mosaic
- Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY: Long Island City - Artists Members Showcase
- Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), Brooklyn, NY: Recycle
- National Association of Women Artists Gallery, NYC: The Art of Layering
- Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY: Pairings Exhibition
- Annual Art Students League Small Works Show at Manhattan Borough President's Office
- Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY: Red Envelope Exhibition
Awards and Grants
- Bruce Dorfman Grant Award for Mixed Media Art, 2024, The Art Students League, NYC
- Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant for 2024, New York Foundation for the Arts and the NYC Council
- Juried Award for "Eclipse," New England Sculpture Association, Equinox: Passage from Dark to Light, 2024
- Red Dot (Best in Show) Award for "Arabesque," Dorfman class Exhibition, The Art Students League, NY, 2024
- Second Place Award for "Arabesque," Making our Marks, International Society for Experimental Artists, 2024
- Pietro & Alfrieda Montana Memorial Award for “Joy,” 110th Annual Exhibition of Allied Artists of America, 2023
- Margaret Stefan Draughon Merit Scholarship for study at The Art Students League, 2023-2024
- Blue Ribbon winner for “Ode to Mr. Wright,” Uncovered Treasures exhibition, 2022
- City Artists Corp Grant (NYC, 2021)
- SU-CASA Art and Teaching Grant, Queens Council on the Arts (Queens, NY, 2020)
- National Association of Women Artists, Juried Member, September 2019
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Professional Travel Grant, for study in Great Britain, March 1990