gail winbury art

GAIL WINBURY
Contemporary Abstract Artist

137 BRIGHTWOOD AVENUE
WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY, 07090
908-456-6727

gwinburyartist@gmail.com


EDUCATION
School of Visual Arts, 2009-2011, Manhattan, New York
University of Massachusetts, 1978, Amherst, Massachusetts, BA
studied privately with artist Dorothy Yung, 1995-2010, Highland Park, NJ

RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS
Summer 2016, Artist Residency and Artist Exchange, Jewish Federation, Arad, Israel
Summer 2015, Visual Arts Fellowship at Bau Institute, Otranto Italy
Sumer 2014, international Painting Residency, School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, NY
2015, master-class with Joan Snyder, Castle Hill, Truro, Massachusetts

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITS
2017 Gail Winbury/D.E. Aderhold, Heinrich-Heine-House, Lunaberg,Germany(curator Cora Althuslmann, M.A.)
2016 Gail Winbury: Paintings and Paper, 73 SEE Gallery, Montclair, NJ (curator Mary Z )
2016 Gail Winbury, ETS Headquarters, Princeton, NJ (curator Lynn Tillman)
2016-2017 Large Works, Atrium Gallery,Morristown, NJ (curatorial assist Katherine Murdock)
2015 "Gestures in Art", invitational, TD Ameritrade, Jersey City, NJ (curator Eileen Ferra)
2015 Bau Institute Studio Exhibition, Otranto, Italy
2015-2014 "Rondos", The Tenth Muse Gallery, Maplewood, NJ
2014 -2015 Tides Hotel Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2014 "Wild Ginger", Gallery U, Westfield, NJ (curator Robert Langdon)
2014 "Les Petite and Les Grande Morte", Studio Exhibition, School of Visual Arts, NYC
2014 "A Touch of Color", The Tenth Muse, Maplewood, NJ
2013 "New Works", The Tenth Muse, Maplewood, NJ
2013 "Solo Works-Gail Winbury", Farmstead Gallery, Basking Ridge, NJ (curator C.Lloyd)
2011-2 "Recent Works", River Mill gallery, Westfield, NJ (curator M.Chan)
2011 "What Pushes Through the Earth", Pearl St Gallery, Elizabeth, NJ (curator Libby Reed)
2009 Jewish Community Center Gallery, Summit, NJ

SELECTED JURIED AND GROUP SHOWS
2017 invitational, UNEXPECTED: What is a painting, Heinz Otto Gallery, Watchung, NJ (curator Gail Winbury and Gail Winbury)
2017 invitational, "Black and White", Emerge Gallery, Sagugerties, NY (curator Robert Landon)
2017 invitational, "Abstrakt", Emerge Gallery, Sagugerties, NY (curator Robert Langdon)
2017 juried "Ellarslie 34", Ellaraslie Museum, Trenton, NJ
2017 "Stolen Identities", Gallery 1978, Maplewood, NJ (curator Gail Winbury)
2017 "Des Arad", invitational, Gaelan Art Gallery, West Orange, NJ
2016 invitational, “Arte Internazionale” Matera, Italy (curator Professor Pino Nicolette)
2016 invitational “Curators Choice”, Village West Gallery, Jersey City, NJ (curator Katherine. Murdock)
2016, “Letters”, The New Art Group, Otto Heinz Gallery, Watchung, NJ
2016 invitational, "The EXPHRASIS Project", Montclair Art Museum and Gallery U, Westfield, NJ (curator R. Langdon)
2015 invitational, "Curators’ Choice”, Jersey City Museum, NJ (curator Dr. Virginia Butera)
2015 invitational,"Contrasting Abstractions", Maple Gallery, Morristown, NJ (curator Butera)
2015 "It's All About Time", City Life Gallery, Jersey City, NJ (curator Gail Winbury)
2015 invitational "Big small Show", Victory Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ, Catalog, (curator James Pusterino)
2015 invitational, The Art Project Gallery, Jersey City, NJ (curator James Pusterino)
2014 William James College Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts (curator Alan Beck, Ph.D.)
2014 juried, Ellarslie Museum, Trenton, NJ ((Tracy Baum, Ph.D. juror)
2014 juried, Exhibitors Co-op, Farmstead Art Gallery, Basking Ridge, NJ (curator Barbara Minch)
2013 juried, "Jazz Stories", Perrio Gallery, South Orange, NJ (curator Micha Hamilton)
2013 juried, Otto Heinz Gallery, Watchung, NJ, award (Donna Gustafson, Ph.D.
2013 Westfield invitational, representing River Mill Gallery, Westfield, NJ
2012 juried show, Mayo Regional Theater, Morristown, NJ (curator Charles Miller)
2009 juried exhibit, Monmouth Library, Monmouth, NJ (curator Dorothy Yung)
2002,2003, New Jersey Watercolor society

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
2016 awarded artist residency in Israel, from the Jewish Federation of Greater Metro West, NJ
2016  awarded Curators Choice Exhibit at Village Wes Gallery, Jersey City , NJ
2016 Judge,Watchung Art Center members exhibit, Heinz Otto Gallery, Watchung, NJ
2015 received Visual Arts Fellowship from the Bau Institute
2015 awarded Curators Choice Exhibit at The Jersey City Museum, by Donna Gustafson, Ph.D. Curator of Zimmerli Museum of Art
2014 received painting residency, School of Visual arts, Manhattan, NY
2015 Painting published in a book on Bach Cello Suites
2012 art exhibited on the Food Network
2011 judge, Union Cultural Commission, corporate headquarters PSEG,Elizabeth, NJ
2001 The Curtis Hilliard Memorial Award, NJ Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

SELECTED PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
2017 Painters talking painting, on line Blog, 11 paintings shown
2017 Radio, Newspaper and magazine interviews, Luneburg, Germany
2016 Urban Agenda Magazine, focus on painting of Gail Winbury
2016 Montclair Times, “Gail Winbury’s work and 73SEE Gallery”
2016 catalog, Solo Exhibit of Gail Winbury Paintings, Drawings and Travel Paintings, edited by Mary Scotti, essay by Lily Wei
2016 essay, “Play it Again”, written by Lily Wei, international curator and journalist
2015 catalog, Mostra Internazionale di Pittura, Matera, Italy, Professor Pino Nicolette
2015 catalog The BIG Small Show, Victory Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2015 “Contrasting Abstraction” reviewed in blog “NOTWHATITIS”
2014 Interview on NJ 21TV, Gail Winbury’s paintings in The Art Project Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2014 Catalog, The BIG Small Exhibit, a juried exhibit of the Victory Drawing Rooms.
2014 painting published in book and accompanying cd of Bach’s Six Cello Suites, Stephen Hancock
2014 Painting included in the past president of the American Psychological Association's
slides for symposia, university lectures, and publications.
2014 article in Alternative Press.
2012 full page article in the Westfield Leader

SELECTED GUEST LECTURES, PRESENTATION and WORKSHOPS
2017  Painters and Poets Speak: the Creative Process, Gallery 1978, Maplewood, NJ
2016 “Women in Abstract Expressionism and Winbury’s Work”, 73SEE Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2016 “Finding Your Visual Language”, workshop for artists, Arad, Israel and Westfield, NJ
2016 “Finding Your Visual Language”, Jewish Federation, West Orange, NJ
2015 “Sex and Death”, Feminist Art Project, 20x20, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers’s University
2015 "It's All About Time", City Life Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2015 2015 “ Abstract Painting and Transition ”, Heinz Otto Gallery ,Watchung, NJ

CURATION
2017 UNEXPECTED: What is a painting? Heinz Otto Gallery
2017 “Stolen Identities”, Gallery 1978, Maplewood, NJ
2015 “ It's All About Time”, City Life Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2014 “Members Exhibit”, CAG, Farmstead Art Center, Basking Ridge, NJ

SELECTED MEMBERSHIPS
Board of Directors, Contemporary Art Group, 2011-2015 Watchung, NJ
(Chair of judging 2013-present)
The Feminist Art Project, Rutgers University, 2013-present, NJ
Studio Montclair, 2014, Montclair, NJ
Pro Arts, Jersey City, NJ


Art is in private collections in:

United States , Germany and Italy