Gail Stoicheff - Speak No Evil (Geo. Washington) 2011

Gail Stoicheff

Gail Stoicheff (born Lewistown, Pennsylvania, 1976) holds an MFA in painting from Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY (2005), and a BFA in painting from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (2000). She has exhibited in the New York City area since 2002, recent shows include: Insider Brooklyn, NY (2010); Just Art NYC (2010); Brooklyn Painters, Rebecca Randall Bryan Gallery, Coastal Carolina University (2009); Gimme a Little Sign, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles (2008);Beyond Pastoral, Gallery w52, NYC (2006);Works on Paper, Gallery MC, NYC (2005); Despite the Sun, Foxy Productions, NYC (2004); Six, Supreme Trading Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2004) and The Warm Weather is Holding, UBS Exhibition Center, Red Hook, NY (2004). She was the 2004 recipient of the prestigious Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting and The Elaine DeKooning Painting Award, and was recently the featured cover artist for the New England Review. My work is a reimagining of the traditional genres of Landscape and Portraiture. Throughout history these images have done double duty as representations of the places and faces of cultural power, functioning well beyond the visual literalities of a natural scene or a likeness, My most recent work---popular contemporary and historical figures, is a reconsideration-through-process of where my own interpretation of these individuals coincides with, resists or completely derails from prevailing ideology and history.