GAIL WINBURY - PAINTING - online solo exhibition - June 18, 2021

Gail Winbury is a contemporary American painter. She exhibits in New York and Europe.

In her art, the artist addresses life situations and memories, feelings, sensations, and sometimes early experiences. She works through these in series and uses painting as a visual language to make the unspeakable visible, palpable and debatable. Layers reflect or hide what has been experienced and lived.

Fascinated by Picasso and Matisse, she reacts to their liberation from representation. This is where the line becomes significant. In her art practice, she uses this as a distorting means to show what otherwise cannot be said. She is influenced by the brush work and palette of De Kooning. While her work is abstract there are in moments, hints of figuration.

After the pandemic, she is now working more slowly and minimally and has no expectations of what it will be. She is leaving out the external art world, that is sometimes a good thing to allow for change.

Gail Winbury is most fascinated when someone sees one of her pictures and sees and understands and feels the intent of the work. It is also fascinating, literally, that she can create something out of nothing with painting. She loves getting lost in the process of painting and then asking herself the question: “How did I do it? Who did that?"

Text by Gail Winbury and Andreas Schlichtner, based on an interview on April 24, 2021