"I employ my camera as a means of exploring the world outside my studio door, of prospecting for visual information and of staying alert to serendipitous alignments of people, places and things."
Photography In her "Album" works Gail Gregg rescued and recontextualized vintage family photo albums. She removed the actual photographs, left intact the paper corners, and filled in the negative space with graphite or muted shades of pastel. In doing so, she was able to excavate universal emotions -- the pain of loss, the frustration of gaps in memory-- from the layers of history of unseen individuals...Gregg's "un-albums" flourish on a formal level as much as on an emotional one. Each austere, minimal grid possesses its own sense of order and geometry, with details such as the binder holes in the black pages becoming as important as the glued-down corners of each missing photograph's rectangular footprint. -Doug McClemont ARTnews, December 2010 Album Series Encaustic works For several years now, Gail Gregg has been working in the tricky medium of encaustic, mining its potential for subtlety, rich color, and tactile appeal... Her earlier works took landscape as their point of departure, but these more recent pictures focus instead on the detritus of our throwaway culture. The modest-size but powerful works resonate beyond their sources... Gregg's sensibility is one of gentle irony and understated elegance. -Ann Landi ARTnews, January 2008 Education 1996- 1998 Vermont College, MFA 1995-1996 Graduate School of Figurative Art, New York Academy of Art Solo Exhibitions 2010 Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Wichita Art Museum, KS Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY Gallery 384, Catskill, NY 2003/04 The Gallery at R&F, Kingston, NY 2003 Latin Collector Gallery, New York, NY 2001 Bridgewater/Lustberg/Blumenfeld Gallery, New York, NY 2000 Mulvane Gallery, Washburn University, Topeka, KS 1998 Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, New York, NY Group Exhibitions 2013 The Metro Show, Luise Ross Gallery booth, New York, NY 2009 Pretty, Strange, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Rare Birds, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY Contiuum, St. Peter’s College Art Gallery, Jersey City, NJ Kansas Masters, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS 2006 Luminous Depths, Ben Shahn Galleries, Wayne, NJ WaxWorks, Silvermine Art Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT Impulse, Portland, OR Art Center Ordered, Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA Generation 5, AIR Gallery, New York, NY Tax-Onomies Portfolio Project, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY 2005/06 WAX, Brush Gallery, Lowell Historic Park, MA 2005 Encaustic Works 2005, Dorsky Museum (SUNY-New Paltz) Optical Simulations, Yellowbird Art Center, Newburgh, NY Engaging the Structural, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY Ideal, Metaphor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2004 Unnatural, Full Spectrum Gallery, Lakewood, NJ Gregg & Sono, Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Ambassador's Residence, Malawi On Your Marks, NY Mercantile Exchange Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Litchfield Collects, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT Off the Beaten Track: Contemporary Mindscapes, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA Collecting and Connecting, Mulvane Gallery, Washburn University, Topeka, KS 2002 Hot Wax, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College Wax and Encaustic, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY Abstract Dilemnas, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College; Allentown PA 2001 A Moveable Feast of American Art, The Official Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations The Critic’s Choice, Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY 2000 Toward the New: American Abstract Artists, Hillwood Art Museum 2001 Long Island University Organization of Independent Artists, The Art Club, New York, NY 1999 Encaustic Works 1999, Watermark Cargo Gallery, Kingston, NY Nine Lives: Painting at the end of the 20th Century, B.K. Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College, Cleveland, OH Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier, VT 1998 Cooperstown National, Cooperstown, NY Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY 1998, 7, 6, 5 Organization of Independent Artists, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY Cooperstown National, Cooperstown, NY 1994 Chautauqua Gallery, New York, NY 1992,1 Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY 1991 Faber Birren Color Show, Stamford, CT Helio Gallery, New York, NY Bibliography Review, ARTnews, January, 2008 "Geometry Reloaded," by Lily Wei; NY Arts, May/June 2005 Review, Catskill Guide, January 2004 Review, Springfield Republican, Dec. 14, 2003 Review, ARTnews, Sept. 2003 New York Times Connecticut Section, Nov. 10, 2002 NY Arts Online, Sept. 19, 2002 Mandalas, 2001, Weiser Books The Art of Encaustic Painting, 2001, Watson-Guptill Review, ARTnews, October 2001 Review, M Magazine (The New York Art World), Summer 2001 New York Times Weekend Art Guide, May 18 and 25, 2001 New York Magazine Art Guide, May 21, 2001 Review, ARTnews, January 1999 FCI News Express (Japanese Television), Oct. 26, 1998 Artist Residency 2005 Yaddo, Saratoga Spring, NY 2002 Escape to Create, The Seaside Institute. Seaside, FL