Marks - Black Overhead

Gail Marks

Black Overhead, 2014

Oil on linen 

43.2 x 27.9 cm / 17 x 11 in 

Marks - Yellow Cloud

Gail Marks

Yellow Cloud, 2002

Watercolor on paper

20.3 x 20.3 cm / 8 x 8 in

Marks - Water Colors

Gail Marks

Water Colors, 2001 - 2015

Watercolor on paper 

15.2 x 22.9 cm / 6 x 9 in 

Marks - Cosmos

Gail Marks

Cosmos, 1992

Acrylic on canvas

25.4 x 17.8 cm / 10 x 7 in

Marks - Water Colors

Gail Marks

Water Colors, 2001 - 2015

Watercolor on paper 

12.7 x 17.8 cm / 5 x 7 in 

Marks - Black and White Poppy

Gail Marks

Black and White Poppy, 2009

48.3 x 36.2 cm / 19 x 14.25 in

Acrylic on brown paper

Marks - Water Colors

Gail Marks

Water Colors, 2001 - 2015 

Watercolor on paper 

12.7 x 17.8 cm / 5 x 7 in 

Marks - Barely There

Gail Marks

Barely There, 2001

20.3 x 20.3 cm / 8 x 8 in

Watercolor on paper

Marks - Water Colors

Gail Marks

Water Colors, 2001 - 2015

Watercolor on paper 

12.7 x 17.8 cm / 5 x 7 in 

Marks - Poppies #8

Gail Marks

Poppies #8, 2010

Charcoal and pencil on paper

55.9 x 76.2 cm / 22 x 30 in

Marks - Water Colors

Gail Marks

Water Colors, 2001 - 2015

Watercolor on paper 

12.7 x 17.8 cm / 5 x 7 in 

Marks - Pastel Poppies

Gail Marks

Pastel Poppies, 2007

58.4 x 61 cm / 23 x 24 in

Acrylic on paper

Marks - Big Cosmos

Gail Marks

Big Cosmos, 1994

Acrylic on canvas

57.8 x 45.7 cm / 22.75 x 18 in

Marks - Untitled

Gail Marks

Untitled, 2002

Watercolor on paper

20.3 x 20.3 cm / 8 x 8 in

Marks - Water Colors

Gail Marks

Water Colors, 2001 - 2015

Watercolor on paper 

15.2 x 22.9 cm / 6 x 9 in 

Marks - I Love That Moon

Gail Marks

I Love That Moon, 2015

17.8 x 12.7 cm / 7 x 5 in

Watercolor on paper

Marks - Looking South

Gail Marks

Looking South, 2012

Watercolor on paper

12.7 x 17.8 cm / 5 x 7 in

Marks - Red Sky House

Gail Marks

Red Sky House, 2015

Watercolor on paper

15.2 x 22.9 cm / 6 x 9 in

Marks - Untitled Moon

Gail Marks

Untitled Moon, 2007

Watercolor on paper

17.8 x 12.7 cm / 7 x 5 in

Press Release

GAIL MARKS
POPPIES, SKY, WATER
August 6 - 31, 2016

Opening Reception August 6, 6 - 8pm

Gaa Gallery Wellfleet

 

Gaa Gallery Wellfleet is pleased to present Poppies, Sky, Water, work by Gail Marks. This exhibition will run from August 6 to August 31. Please join us for an opening reception on Saturday August 6 from 6 to 8.

 

The pictures in Poppies, Sky, Water possess a quiet rhythmic tempo that exudes the environmental lightscapes in which they were created. Gail Marks’ work is inspired by nature and made through careful observation and by fully immersing herself in her subjects.  Her prolific experimentation and her careful assessment of painting have allowed her to tackle everything from large-scale abstraction to the work currently on view. This freedom and care of approach and materiality are inherent to her process.

 

In Poppies, Sky, Water Marks ’acute observational studies are used as a beginning for finished studio pieces.  After she has learned her subject,  Marks gives herself the freedom to create loose and expressive images that allow color, light and space to take center stage. This meditative study of what is close at hand as well as what envelops seeks to study the sublime, both in the vastness of nature and in the studied quiet moments of the everyday. In the face of the current artistic climate's consistently large saccharin painting exhibitions Mark’s small quiet pieces are revolutionary. The strength of this show is in how and what she sees.

 

Gail Marks lives and works in NYC.  Splitting her time between her New York studio and the expansive sensorial landscape of Cape Cod, she has had the opportunity to compile a body of work from a long career of painterly practice. She studied literature and art history at Smith College, Painting at Columbia University and the Art Students League. She has shown her work nationally and internationally, including il Biennale d’arte Contemporanea Oggiogno-Lago Maggiore, Italy. Her work is held in many private collections.