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Artist Statement:
Gale Gibbs, Artist Statement
Main Entry: short story
Function: noun
: an invented prose narrative
shorter than a novel usually
dealing with a few characters
and aiming at unity of effect
and often concentrating on the
creation of mood rather than
plot
My work in the last few years
has developed from what I saw
as contemporary cave painting
to the telling of tales or
short stories, which by
definition, offers me some
opportunity to create a story
which may or may not have a
plot but rather asks the
viewer to participate and
finish the story that I have
begun. These tales or short
stories are often times
developed one image and one
line of text at a time and
then began to make a story,
sometimes truth, sometimes
fiction and sometimes a little
mix of both.
Collage and photography are
the images that I am most
developing at this time. I
begin with a collage and then
photograph it and then paint
the photo. This process is
time consuming but the
finished product combines all
the elements of drawing,
painting, computer, and
photography in a cohesive page
that the viewer enters. The
process of moving and
reforming images is ...
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Artist Galleries:
Sippora Gallery, Houston, Tx.
Latitudes Fine Art Gallery,
Houston, Tx....
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Artist Reviews:
REVIEW
TRAHERN ART GALLERY
Gale Gibbs
UNSETTLING WORLD OF WORDS AND
PAINT
Artist Gale Gibbs' work will
take you for walk inside the
mind
By Stacy Smith Segovia - The
Leaf Chronicle
Go section September 3 1999
Don't walk into the Trahern
Gallery anytime soon expecting
to get a quick...
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Collections:
Selected Private Collections:
Mr. and Mrs. Scott L.
Michener, Lawton, Oklahoma
Chris and Kanomie Miyahira,
Plano, Texas
Rockwall Arts Alliance,
Rockwall, Texas
Cathy Watts, Dallas, Texas
Lisa LeMaster, The LeMaster
Group, Dallas, Texas
Nancy Simpson, Dallas, Texas
Holly Bennett, Dallas, Texas
Dian Malouf, Dallas, Texas
Benson Warren, Lawton,
Oklahoma
Cameron ...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Exhibitions for Gale Gibbs:
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Solo Exhibitions (1988-02):
Two Person Show, Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, Oklahoma-April 2002
“Farce and Fable: collage paintings by Gale Gibbs” Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tenn. August 30, 1999
"Bird Stories", Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, Tx. l996
"Various Animals, Tools, and Remains", Rose Learman Arts Center, Harrisburg, Pa. Harrisburg Area Community College 1994
"Ritual, Rhetoric, and Resolution, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, La. 1992
Eastfield College, Mesquite, Tx. l992
Illinois Central College, Peoria, Illinois l988
Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma 1988
Group Exhibitions (1987-09): (selected)
Sketchbook Project, Art House, Atlanta, Ga. Feb. 2009
Houston City Hall Project, Houston City Hall annex, Houston, Tx. March 2007, March 2009
“In the Mind’s Eye” Sippora Art Gallery, Houston, Texas, Houston, Texas-Feb., 2003
Houston Women’s Caucus for Art 25th Anniversary,The Foundry, Houston, Texas (Show Piece Place) 2003
FORT SMITH ART QUEST 2000 Fort Smith Civic Center, Fort Smith, Arkansas January-June 2001
Emergency Artists Support League. The Quadrangle,
Dallas Texas August 95
Wave, Dallas Women’s Art Group, Metroplex Gallery, Seattle, Washington March 95.
“Vigorous Visions”, Warehouse Living Arts Center Invitational, Dr. M.K. Hicks, /Sandra Dowd, Director, Navarro College, Curators.
Books by WAVE Texas Women’s University, Denton,Texas, August, 95
“Common Ground-Diverse Expressions”, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas
DVCA Auction, Dallas, Texas Dallas Visual Art Center, May, 1999
Members Invitational, THE MAC, Dallas, Texas, Sept. l995
“Figs From Thistles” Marcie Inman, Curator, Dallas, Texas WAVE Group Exhibition, Museum of Brno, Republic of Czech..
Wave Resource/Trammell Crow ,Curated by JanetTyson,Art Critic/Ft. Worth Star Telegram 1994
Gale Gibbs/Nic D’Vrie, Local Color Gallery, College Station, Texas 1994
“Woman’s Work: On and Off Paper” Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, Oklahoma, Invitational.1994
“Out of Context”, Dallas Public Library, Dallas, Texas.1993
“Second Wave” 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
National Sketchbook and Journal Exhibition”, Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma. “l992
“Women’s Viewpoint”, Eastfield College. Mesquite, Texas 1991
Plano Arts Cultural Center Invitational, Plano, Texas, 1991
Mountainview College Invitational, Duncanville, Texas.1991
Juror Exhibitions 1984-09(selected):
What Texas Means to Me, Austin art Space, Austin, Tx July 2009
Hunting Art Prize Finalist, Decorative Center, Houston, Tx. 5, 2009
American Jurored Art Salon, Online exhibition, 6 months 5, 2009
Hunting Art Prize Finalist, Decorative Art Center, Houston, Texas, April 2007
Vast Arts, Juror, Karen Kunc, Denton, Tx. April 2007
“Paperworks, On and of paper University of West Florida,”,Pensacola, Fl 32514, February 2007
Katherine Butler Gallery, Sarasota, Florida May, 2006
Texas National 2005, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas.
James Surls, Juror April 2005
Oklahoma: Centerfold, 2004, 11th Biennial National Juried Art Show, (traveling to University of Sciences and Arts, USAO Gallery, Chickasha, Oklahoma Nov. 2004- March 2005
AJAS, Richardson, Tx. October – December 2005
47th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, 2004 , Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua N.Y. Donald Kuspit, juror, Chautauqua, N.Y. June 2004
The Dishman Competition, Dishman Museum, Lamar University, Beaumont, Tx., Dewey F. Mosby, Picker Art Gallery , Colgate University, Juror, March 2004
The Second Seven State Biennial, Juror: Carl Beesley, Chickasha, Oklahoma November 2003, traveling to Leslie Powell Gallery, January 2004
The Second Seven State Biennial, Juror: Carl Beesley, Chickasha, Oklahoma November 2003, traveling to Leslie Powell Gallery, January 2004
Rock Wall Arts Alliance, Rockwall Texas, Juror: Nancy Whitenack, Conduit Gallery, PURCHASE AWARD 2000
“52nd Annual Competition” Museums of Abilene, Abilene, Texas James Surls, Juror Feb. 1997
“Works on Paper: Recent Drawings, Prints and Photographs.” Dallas, Texas Marilyn S. Kushner, Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, The Brooklyn Museum, Juror September, 1996 HONORABLE MENTION
“Crossing the White Line” Trammell Crow Center Dallas, Texas, Cecelia Alvarez, Susan Grant, Jurors
“Expanding Vision” Women of the Metroplex-Dallas City Hall, Dr. Annegreth Nill, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Juror, Dallas, Texas
l8th Juried Competition, Paul Zeppelin, Professor of Fine Art, Tenn. State University, Juror, Monroe, La.
Greater Midwest International Exhibit, Dr. Harold Gregor, Juror, Professor of Art, Ill. State Univ., Warrensburg, Mo.
Longview Museum and Arts Center, James M. Edwards, Brown, Curator of Art, San Antonio Museum, Juror, Longview, Texas
24th Annual Del Mar National, James Surls, artist, Juror, Corpus Christi, Texas HONORABLE MENTION
Clary-Miner Gallery National, Shirley Kassman, Juror , Buffalo, N.Y FIRST PLACE
Clary-Miner Gallery National, William H. Giles, Director of Associated Artists Gallery, Juror, Buffalo, N.Y. HONORABLE MENTION
“Common Ground”4th National, Dallas Women’s Caucus, Marilyn Zeithlin, Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Juror, Dallas, Texas
“Excellence 89” Texas Sculpture Association National, Mary Beebe, Director of the Stuart Collection, University of California, Juror, Dallas, Texas 1989
22nd Bradley National Drawing and Print Exhibition, Ofelia Garcia, President, Atlanta College of Art, Juror
Excellence 87 Texas Sculpture Association, Dallas, Texas 1987
Schoharie Art Council, Schoharie, N.Y. Lisa Dennison, juror, Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum, New York City
22nd Del Mar College National, Fritz Scholder, Juror, Corpus Christi, Texas
The Halpert Biennial, Charlotte, N.C.
Dimension 88, Associated Arts of Winston-Salem, NC
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