Instagram: gailandia
Website: http://www.stanford.edu/~gailw
Bio: I hold an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute where I was a Javits Fellow, and a BFA from the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art. My art has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in diverse venues such as the Natural History Museum of London, the National Art Museum of China, the Seville Biennial, and SFMoMA. I’ve been fortunate to have residencies at western Australia’s Symbiotica, Art & Archaeology at Stonehenge, the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, the Headlands in Sausalito, and San Francisco’s Exploratorium among many others. Public collections include the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centro Andaluz de Art Contemporaneo in Spain, the British Library, the Bainbridge Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, Yale, Harvard, and Tufts Universities and others. I’m Professor Emerita in Stanford University’s Department of Art & Art History, where I continue to teach book arts and hybrid printmaking with a focus on experimental media. My work is represented by Patricia Sweetow Gallery in Los Angeles, Kelmscott Bookshop in Maryland, Vamp & Tramp in Alabama, and Salt Point Press in northern California.
Statement: I am a visual artist constructing biological allegories. Working across traditional and experimental mediums, my art teases out the impacts of the life sciences on the living: human, animal, and other. The interplay between art and biology, theories of evolution, animal consciousness, and the vagaries of biochemistry are themes that have, over the past three decades, become central to my art. I’m currently immersed in the ecology of the northern California coast and the impacts of climate collapse on this fragile ecosystem as well as the heavily logged adjacent redwood forests.