Artist Gale Gibbs creates mixed media paintings filled with bustling activity and stories to tell. Visit her website to see more of her art.
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“The Sound of Ravens” Acrylic and Ink on Canvas, 40″ x 30″
I consider myself a contemporary storyteller.
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“The Tempest and the Tap Tap Tapping” Acrylic on Canvas, 40″ x 30″
My dad is gone now but he loved a good story and of course it worked its way into my own art. I think of stories as operas, comedies, two to three act plays and fairy tales.
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“Sometimes There’s Just Rock and Roll” Acrylic, Watercolor, Ink and Pencil on Rives Paper, 30″ x 22″
I work from photos I take and draw from, and free thinking. Stories develop as I go along so often, I don’t know where they will end up.
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“Magic Birds” Acrylic and Collage on Canvas, 72″ x 60″
I reflect things I see in society or dream would come true. I use ordinary abstract animals, like fish and turtles to show direction and movement. And I love the symbol of chairs because of the variety of meanings they can imply.
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“Crossing Into Sunrise” Mixed Media on Rives Paper, 30″ x 22″
Often, I show them turned over or with holes in the upholstery and all of that has a meaning to me. Each story takes a life of its own combining visual and free thought.
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“An Oklahoma Farm Story” Mixed Media on Rives Paper, 30″ x 22″
I use abstract characters to speak with a voice that is their own. I scribble, use words occasionally and anything that comes into my mind as the drawing or painting begins its own journey.
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“Once We Were Boys” Pencil, Ink and Acrylic on Rives Paper, 30″ x 22″
My stories also reflect social change. By allowing people to draw their own interpretation, my story becomes the viewer’s story.
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“Pond Life” Ink, Acrylic and Pencil on Rives Paper, 30″ x 22″
I love to draw and to paint. As an older artist, I feel satisfaction that the simple act of making art for the last thirty years has been everything I hoped it would be. I’ve shown in many national and gallery shows with well-known curators.
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“Nevermore” Acrylic and Ink on Canvas, 30″ x 22″
In 2018, I had three pieces in EXPO 37, B.J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, New York juried by Cara Manas of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recently I have shown in two gallery shows—Works on Paper, curated by Emmanuel Gillespie, Pencil on Paper Gallery, Farmers Branch and Finding Beauty in the Mundane, Levee Art Gallery, Monroe, Louisiana.
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Artist Gale Gibbs
I have loved cave painting, abstract expressionism, Degas, Kahlo, The Garden of Earthly Delight, Peter Bruegel, the elder, Kathe Kollwitz, Max Beckmann, Vincent Van Gogh and Susan Rothenberg.
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