Gail Gray Fine Art Studio -- 34 1/2 N. Queen Street, Lancaster, PA
17603 -- 717-393-0266 --
gail@gailcgray.com
Portals III
Artist Gail Gray has, over the past 10 years, created unique works of art, which have been interpreted on stage as dance, drama, music, and interdisciplinary presentations by local performing artists. Gail’s paintings projected behind the live performances serve as the sets. “Portals III” continues the concept using the artist’s original paintings and/or their titles as inspiration for performances by Dominique Jordan Miller, Sophie Xiong, Ever Sandoval, Taska Ska Winyan, Solise White, Evita Colon, Disrupt Theater, Teatro Paloma, and others.
Exhibit Opening Reception presented January 7
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On display until January 27 at Regitz Gallery - Ware Center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
ARTIST STATEMENT: The paintings in this exhibit, which constitute much of my production, began June 10, 2020, in Avalon New Jersey, where I worked nearly every day throughout 2020 and on into 2021. Avalon has been sparsely populated during all but the normally peak summer season making it the ideal place to work safely and uninterrupted for an unprecedented length of time. Taking advantage of this window in time meant I could work uninterrupted from painting to painting. Each work is intentionally completely different from all of the others and purposely abstract. The use of abstraction and evocative titles is necessary to afford invited performing artists to interpret the titles and images in any way they devise, using the large projected images on stage as stage sets.
Titles of each work are integral to the composition reflecting my state of mind at the time I was creating. The entire series stands as a chronology of my self-imposed seclusion away from the threat of the pandemic. This sustained pace of production is unique in my artistic career.
Prompted by the unique circumstance of living through the pandemic, the images and titles speak to my stream of consciousness emerging within a chaotic world of external events. This series stands as a visual and psychological record of my life as an artist immersed in our dystopic climatic and cultural mileu.
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Portals II
Provocative titles describing a situation or concept inspire performers’ interpretations to words and abstract images. Each of twelve paintings were projected on stage as the setting for a performance by dancers, musicians, or actors.
This exhibit is collaboration between the artist and performers in which the images and titles spark but do not direct the interpretations of performers. Surprising and delightful spontaneous performances resulted. The actual paintings were exhibited simultaneously in the Regitz Gallery at the rear of the auditorium at Millersville University’s Ware Center at 42 North Prince Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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