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Gina Werfel

1951
(USA) AMERICAN

吉娜·沃費爾(Gina Werfel)是一位美國抽象畫家,她的作品運用鮮明的色彩、抒情的筆觸和複雜的構圖結構來探索視覺空間中的和諧。她在長島長大,目前居住並工作於加利福尼亞州薩克拉門托附近,擔任加州大學戴維斯分校的藝術教授。

吉娜·沃費爾

教育背景

沃費爾在紐約克林頓的柯克蘭學院(現為漢密爾頓學院一部分)獲得文學士學位,並在紐約工作室學校完成研究生學業。隨後,她在紐約哥倫比亞大學獲得美術碩士學位。她還獲得多項著名的獎學金和資助,並在全球重要學校和機構擔任藝術教授、訪問大學講師及駐校藝術家,擁有卓越的職業生涯。

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技法

沃費爾在畫布上使用油畫、壓克力顏料及混合媒材。她的背景是風景畫,這幫助她培養了對光線、色彩關係和構圖和諧的敏銳觀察力。當她轉向抽象藝術時,她加強了利用這些感知來傳達畫面空間中情感和氛圍狀態的能力。在她的抽象畫作中,她運用富有表現力、抒情的筆觸,創造出動感和能量的爆發。她的色彩選擇涵蓋從柔和寧靜到鮮明電光的多種色調。除了傳統的筆刷技法,她還結合噴漆和模板等媒介,構築層次豐富、複雜且富有表現力的構圖。

靈感來源

沃費爾曾在世界各地學習和教學。她從所接觸的不同畫面風景中獲得靈感:例如北加州的山丘與光線的交互作用,以及法國布列塔尼的質感和色彩。她對日常經驗如何影響她的畫作感興趣。她可能在一天的早些時候因一個自發的筆觸而受到啟發,隨後又被工作室的景色所引導。最終,她的構圖不指涉任何特定事物,而是對光線、透明度和空間中色彩特質的探究。

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藝術家聲明

「如同音樂中的複音,沃費爾的作品由多個獨立的『聲音』或來源的質地組成。她層疊多重元素,創造出繪畫的宇宙;隱藏的筆觸痕跡暗示著記憶的片段、工作室內部或窗外的瞥見。沃費爾創作的構圖呼應了她戶外繪畫時所吸引的風景空間複雜性——翻滾的山丘或水下的倒影。但如今,這些片段漂浮於流動、朦朧的空間中。」

展覽

沃費爾在美國各地舉辦過大量個展和聯展,最近的個展包括在法國巴黎的美國大學以及紐約市的王子街畫廊。

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Solo Exhibitions

2018 Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, NJ
2017 American University in Paris, Paris, France
2017 Prince Street Gallery, East/West, New York, NY
2017 Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Geographies, Falmouth, ME
2016 Mondavi Winery, Clearing, Margrit Mondavi Gallery, Napa, CA
2014 Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA, Screens and Passages, with Hearne Pardee
2013 Google Headquarters, Mountain View, CA
2013 Adler and Co Gallery, San Francisco, He Said, She Said, with Hearne Pardee
2013 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Stanilar Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
2012 Alex Bult Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2012 Jane Deering Gallery, Polyphonics, Santa Barbara, CA
2011 California State University, Stanislaus, Persistence of Vision (catalogue & essay by DeWitt Cheng)
2010 Adler & Co Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Prince Street Gallery, New York City
2009 Adler & Co Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Mondavi Winery, Vineyard Gallery, Napa, CA
2007 Landscape, Observation and Abstraction, Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame de Nur, Belmont, CA (catalogue & essay by Mark van Proyen)
2007 Prince Street Gallery, New York City
2007 Monty Stabler Galleries, Birmingham, AL
2007 B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2007 Mondavi Winery, Vineyard Gallery, Napa, CA
2007 Prince Street Gallery, New York City
2001 Prince Street Gallery, New York City
2001 Monty Stabler Galleries, Birmingham, AL
1998 Prince Street Gallery, New York City
1995 Monty Stabler Galleries, Birmingham, AL
1994 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1994 Dupont Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
1993 Monty Stabler Galleries, Birmingham, AL
1992 Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA
1992 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Congress Square Gallery, Portland, ME
1989 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
1989 Gallery 127, Portland, ME
1986 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
1985 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1983 College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
1983 Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
1982 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1982 University of Maine, Farmington, ME
1981 Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
1980 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2017 Shapeshifters: Superheavies, NIAD Gallery, Oakland, CA, curated by Jessica Snow; catalog essay by Scott Hewicker
2017 Alumni Exhibition, NY Studio School, curated by Stephen Harvey and Jennifer Samet
2016 Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2016 Alumni Exhibition, NY Studio School, NYC, curated by Andrew Arnot
2016 Winter Art Salon, Park City, Utah, curated by Lucy Buchanan
2016 American Embassy, Ljubljana, group show (catalog)
2012 Tomorrow’s Legacies: Gifts Celebrating the Next 125 Years, Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA
2012 Between the Quotes, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
2012 Flatlanders on the Slant Step, Nelson Gallery, Davis, CA
2009 Fourth of July Show, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Artists in Residence, Yosemite Museum, Yosemite, CA
2009 The Nature of Landscape, San Francisco Studio School Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Surface and Substance, San Francisco Studio School Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Cool and Austere, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Plein Air Abstraction, curated by Peter Frank, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2006 From Postwar to Postmodernism, curated by Jerome Neuner, Noah Fischer, Garth Graeper, and Gareth James (catalogue), Columbia University
2006 Sacramento Valley Landscape Show, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2006 The Continuous Mark: 40 Years of the New York Studio School, curated by Jennifer Samet, New York Studio School
2003 Gone West (catalogue & essay by Peter Frank), John Natsoulas Gallery
2003 Pieces of the Puzzle, curated by Melissa Chandon, Woodland City Hall
2002 Art Afficionado, Birmingham Art Museum, Birmingham, AL (3-person show), Washington Art Association, Washington, CT
2002 Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
2002 Personal Views: Four Painters and Landscape, Karl Drerup Fine Arts Gallery, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH
1995 Thirty Years of Drawing, New York Studio School, New York, NY
1995 Site 250, Fairbanks, AK
1995 Pennsylvania School of Design, Lancaster, PA, curated by Ruth Bernard
1995 Contemporary Landscape, curated by Martin Mugar, Art Institute of Boston
1995 Landscape Revisited, Gaumann-Cicchino Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL, traveling to Philadelphia, Washington, and New York City, 1989-91
1995 Visions of the Southwest, Area Gallery, Portland, ME
1987 Inaugural Group Show, Gallery 127, Portland, ME
1987 Artists Who Teach in Maine, curated by Sarah Fawcett, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
1987 Faculty Invitational, Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, NY
1987 Landscape, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
1987 Juried Alumni Show, New York Studio School, New York, NY
1987 Painters Who Look at the Environment, curated by Tom Higgins, University of Maine, Farmington, ME
1987 Juried Show, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
1987 Contemporary Gallery Artists, Barridoff Galleries, Portland, ME
1982 Drawings from Nature, curated by Judith Sobol, Director, Joan Whitney Payson Gallery, Portland, ME
1981 Juried Show, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
1980 New Drawings, Bette Stoler Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Contemporary Gallery Artists, Barridoff Galleries, Portland, ME
1978 Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, juried by Irving Sandler

Art Fairs

2017 Art Apart Fair, Singapore (invited, but declined)
2014-2015 Art Silicon Valley/SF- 2014 (Adler & Co, UC Davis)
2010-2015 Art Market San Francisco (Adler & Co)
2009-2010 Los Angeles Art Show (Adler & Co)

Public Art

2017 Clearing: Burnett Miller Park, McKinley Village, Sacramento, CA, seven panel installation
2010 On the Go: Artists’ Traveling Sketchbooks, Terminal B, Sacramento Airport

Public Collections

Betty Moore School of Nursing, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA
Kaiser Permanente, Sacramento, CA
Kaiser Permanente, Davis, CA
West Village, UC Davis, Davis, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Sheraton Roanoke Hotel and Conference Center, Roanoke, VA

Recent Reviews

Reproduction of “Ascent” on Cal Aggie Alumni Association’s Premier Alumni Wine Collection, Heringer Winery, Clarksburg, CA, September 16, 2017
Cohen, David, “three more shout-outs of shows opening today, artcritical.com, March 31, 2017
Kany, Dan, “Abstract and Landscape by a Single Brush at Elizabeth Moss Galleries”, Portland Press Herald, February 12, 2017
Reproduction, Maine Art and Design, February 2017
“Get the Look”, reproduction, Cheshire Life, July 2016
Groff, Larry, “Interview with Gina Werfel“, Painting Perceptions, November 2015
Granett, Sarah, “Gina Werfel’s Loosening Forms”, Dime and Honey, October 27, 2015
Seed, John, “Hearne Pardee and Gina Werfel: {he said, she said…} at Adler and Co.” Huffington Post, November 2013
Roth, David, “Flatlanders on the Slant Step at the Nelson”,
Square/Cylinder.com, July 30, 2012
Dalkey, Victoria, “Bold and Beautiful”, Sacramento Bee, April 29, 2012
Cheng, DeWitt, “Gina Werfel at Alex Bult Gallery”, Art Ltd, July/Aug 2012
Woodard, Josef, “Musical Gesturing”, Santa Barbara News Press, February 17, 2012
Donelan, Charles, “Abstract and Beautiful”, Santa Barbara Independent, February 15, 2012
Baker, Kenneth, “Don’t Miss” color reproduction, San Francisco Chronicle, April 25, 2010
Baker, Kenneth, "Werfel at Adler", San Francisco Chronicle, February 19, 2009
Baker, Kenneth, “Cheap Thrill” San Francisco Chronicle, January 18, 2009
Berlind, Robert, “Gina Werfel at Prince Street” Art in America, Nov 2007
Goodrich, John, www.exhibitionspreview.com2007
Cohen, David, “The Continuous Mark: 40 Years of the New York Studio
School”, New York Sun, February 17, 2005
Dalkey, Victoria, “Nature Untamed” Sacramento Bee, March 20, 2005
“Valleyscapes” Sacramento Bee, July 24, 2005
Katz, Vincent, “Gina Werfel” Art in America, May 2004
U. S. Art in Embassies Program, Anniversary Catalog, Reproduction, 2004
Sievert, Robert “Gina Werfel” Artezine Fall 2003
Munich, Suzanne, “Gone West” Davis Enterprise, February 2003
Sievert, Robert “Gina Werfel” Artezine, Spring 2002
Nelson, James R. Nelson, Birmingham News, October 9, 2001
Driscoll, John & Skolnick, Arnold, The Artist and the American Landscape,
First Glance Books, 1998.
Skolnick, Arnold, and Little, David, Paintings of Maine, New York, 1991

Grants And Awards

2016 American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist, April 2016
2005-2007 International School of Art, Montecastello, Italy, Senior Artist in Residence
2005-2007 Yosemite National Park, Artist in Residence
2005-2007 Connecticut Arts Commission Grant in Painting
2005-2007 Artist–in-Residence, Auvillar, France,
1993 Yosemite National Park, Artist in Residence
1986 Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA (residency)
1984 Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy (fellowship)
1981 Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA (residency)

Related Experience

2017 Turps Banana Art School, London, England, Visiting Artist
2013 Washington and Lee University, Visiting Artist
2013 University of Virginia, Visiting Artist
2013 Randolph College, Visiting Artist
2011 Haverford College, Distinguished Visiting Artist
2011 Brandeis University, Visiting Artist, Post- Baccalaureate Program
2009 UC Santa Barbara, Visiting Artist
2009 Western Carolina University, Visiting Artist
2009 American University, Corciano Italy, visiting artist, MFA program
1998 Trinity College, Visiting Artist
1994 Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, Visiting Artist
1994 Washington and Lee University, Visiting Artist