Gail Gregg
Artist Statement:
A journalist who re-discovered art-making in my late 30s, I enjoy working from “real life” – albeit with an abstracted take on reality. I transform homely, everyday objects that typically go unseen into images I hope will encourage viewers to be alert to beauty of all kinds. A forlorn chicken crate lid becomes a geometric painting. The aerial landscape of the American West, typically viewed only from airplane seats, serves as a new lens on nature. Through a variant of alchemy, I transform paper packing materials destined for the trash into radiant, gilded objects. Orphaned photo albums become haunting images of loss. Vintage postcards coupled with material from supermarket fliers are imbued with surrealistic narratives. I excitedly grab a camera when a car wash paints on my windshield. Jettisoned library cards and vintage photos become visual puns. And melted paint unfurls as I step through a crosswalk, asking me to take notice.
Artist Biography:
Gail Gregg is a mixed-media artist based in NYC. Born in Topeka, KS in 1951, Gregg graduated from Kansas State University in photojournalism in 1972 and earned an MA in journalism at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1975. Gregg worked as a reporter in North Carolina, London and Washington DC before moving to NYC as a Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University.
She studied art at the National Academy of Fine Art, the School of Visual Arts, The New School and earned a MA from Vermont College of Visual Arts in 1999.
Gregg’s work is found in numerous private collections and in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The Philips Collection, U.S. Dept. of State, and the Whitney Museum. She has exhibited at such institutions as the Baker Museum, Beach Museum of Art, Mead Art Museum, Missoula Art Museum and Mulvane Art Museum.
AAA:
Member Since: 2000
Former Treasurer, Journal Co-Editor
