Gail Gwinn
Artist’s Statement
May 2011 Show at Brackenwood Gallery “It’s All in the Fine Print” Show.
Gail Gwinn is known for her intaglio prints. For this exhibit, she has created a series of etchings incorporating flowers from the many botanical studies she has made over the years. While the flowers are carefully rendered, their surroundings are mysterious and dreamlike.
April 2010 Show at Brackenwood Gallery featured Gail Gwinn.
“There/Not There” is solo watercolor show featuring a series of intricate black and white paintings. The exhibit will also include a few of Gail’s etchings and prints.
“Thoughts, memories, dreams, ghosts, time. All things that are there/not there. Things that affect me, and yet I can’t hold them or keep them. So are they really there, these things?
This series examine a paradox: the presence of that which lies between what can be kept and what is lost.” Gail Gwinn
Gail is an artist who pays great attention to detail. She combines textures and patterns to create paintings with a dreamlike essence.
A talented painter, print maker and etcher Gail’s expertise shines through in the quality she achieves in each piece. The combination of abstract and real draws one in to look closely at her work.
Visit Gail Gwinn’s Blog: LlNK
Selected Exhibitions:
2011 Brackenwood Gallery, Langley WA, It’s All in the Fine Print
2010 Rob Schouten Gallery, Greenbank WA, A Moment’s Grace
Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor WA, 25th Annual Holiday Fete
Dougherty Art Center, Austin TX, Multiple Originals XV
Brackenwood Gallery, Small Pleasures
Alice C Sabatini Art Gallery and Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka KS,
Printed Image 3
Froggwell Gardens, Freeland WA, 2010 Froggwell Biennale
Pump Project Gallery, Austin TX, Women Printmakers of Austin Hot Print
Show
Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland WA, Ten: Seattle Print Arts Anniversary
Exhibition
Brackenwood Gallery, There/Not There, One person show
Artlink, Fort Wayne IN, 30th Annual National Print Exhibition
2009
Froggwell Garden, Freeland WA, Exhibition and Sale of Old Masters (forgeries, that is)
W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Gallery, Cal Poly, Pomona CA, Ink and Clay 35
2008
Froggwell Garden, The Froggwell 5th Invitational Printmaking and Sculpture Exhibition
Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor WA, 23rd Anniversary Show
2006
Froggwell Garden, The Froggwell 3rd Invitational Printmaking and Sculpture Exhibition
Museo, Langley WA, Sui Generis, group show
Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, Sixty Square Inches,
15th Biennial North American Small Print Exhibition
The College of New Jersey, Ewing NJ, National Printmaking 2006
W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Gallery, Cal Poly, Ink and Clay 32
CoCA, Seattle WA, Seattle Print Arts @ CoCA
2005
Bayleaf, Coupeville WA, Vases, one person show
Museo, Five person show
Froggwell Garden, The Froggwell 2nd Invitational Printmaking and Sculpture Exhibition
University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha WI, 18th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition
2004
Bayleaf, Light through the Trees, one person show
Froggwell Garden, The Froggwell 1st Invitational Printmaking and Sculpture Exhibition
2003
Museo, Light through the Trees
2001
Museo, The Moon
Museo, The Fruit Show, group show
Bayview Gallery, Langley WA, Whidbey Island Artists Studio Tour
2000
Museo, Twelve Months of Sun
Bayview Gallery, Whidbey Island Artists Studio Tour
Museo, The Fruit Show, group show
1999
Bayview Gallery, Whidbey Island Artists Studio Tour
1997
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Langley WA
Northwind Gallery, Guemes Island WA, group show
Bayview Gallery, Group show
1996
Museo Piccolo, Two person show
Museo Piccolo, Love Letters, group show
1995
Museo Piccolo, Summer Contained
Island County Fairgrounds, Langley WA, Choochokam ‘95
1994
Museo Piccolo, Kites, group show
Museo Piccolo, The Fall Wall, one person show
Museo Piccolo, Second Annual Miniature Exhibition, group show
Whidbey Record Building, Langley WA, The Last Edition, five person show
Whidbey Record Building, Choochokam ‘94
Old Langley Building Supply, Langley WA, Crosses, group show
1993
Whidbey Record Building, Choochokam ‘93
1990
Stonington Gallery, Seattle WA, 50th Annual Exhibition of Northwest Watercolors
1989
CoCA, Seattle WA, Artists’ Trust Valentine Exhibition
1988
Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin College, Pasco WA, Davidson Gallery Artists
1987
Davidson Galleries, Seattle WA, Before and After, group show
1986
Davidson Galleries, Group show of gallery artists
Grossmont College, El Cajon CA, San Diego Watercolor Society International Exhibition
Pacific Arts Center, Seattle WA, Contemporary Artists at Pacific Arts Center
Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle WA, Seattle Design Association 12 x 12
1985
Davidson Gallery, Group show
Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle WA, One person show
Doris E. Roberts Gallery, Richland WA, Eastern Washington Watercolor Society
Juried Competition, Gold Award
Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell MT, Watermedia ‘85
Grossmont College, San Diego Watercolor International Exhibition
Rembrandt Watercolor Award
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA, Painting and Sculpture
Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula MT, The Primal Plastic Pool
and Other Mysteries of Summer
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue WA, 45th Annual Exhibition of Watercolors
Peter Kirk Gallery, Kirkland WA, Eastside Association of Fine Arts
Ninth Annual Juried Show, Honorable mention
Matter-danz Gallery, Bellingham WA, One person show
Chuckanut Gallery, Bow WA, One person show
Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane WA, Northwest Juried Art
Spokane Art Supply Award for Watercolor
Davidson Galleries, Four person show
1984
Doris E. Roberts Gallery, Eastern Washington Watercolor Society Juried Competition
Phinney Center Gallery, Second Annual Fall Exhibition
Publications:
2005 University of Wisconsin-Parkside, 18th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, catalogue
1994 Island Independent, December 22, The Fall Wall, Gail Gwinn
1985 Eastern Washington Watercolor Society, catalogue
Signature, August 20, Moving Still-lives, Charla Reid
San Diego Watercolor Society, catalogue
Montana Watercolor Society, Watermedia ‘85, catalogue
Missoula Museum of the Arts, The Primal Plastic Pool… catalogue
Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Northwest Juried Art, catalogue
Bellingham Herald, March 29, Watercolor exhibit turns simple objects into personal treasures,
Jerry Szymanski
The Seattle Weekly, January 23, Visual Arts: Davidson Gallery, Bradford R. Collins
Education:
2005 Sev Shoon, Seattle WA, Kathryn Trigg, Monotype
1996-99 Island International Artists, Guemes Island WA, Richard Stauffacher, Intaglio
1995 Would Be Art, Langley WA, Anne Belov, Acrylic painting
Would be Art, Lane Gwinn Hill, Oil painting
1976-77 California State University Long Beach
1973-75 Santa Monica College, Santa Monica CA
Current representation:
Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor WA
Brackenwood Gallery, Langley WA