Blue Sweep Collage

Gail Flanery is a '72 graduate of Cooper Union (NYC). She was influenced by the painter and colorist Wolf Kahn. She has worked with a number of master printers and presently works at the shop of Master Printer Kathy Caraccio. Gail is primarily a printmaker. She has a colorists concern and has always admired and drawn inspiration from the color field painters such as Mark Rothko. Her work is in dozen's of private and corporate collections, and is in the permanent collection of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. Flanery has exhibited extensively, and press credits include The New York Times. She is on the advisory board at the Kentler International Drawing Center and is a member of 440 Gallery in Park Slope, Brooklyn. "I believe all art forms are found in nature. My artwork is inherently suggestive of landscape, although the geography is not specific. These landscapes are unpopulated. The work evolves and develops with a consideration of space and a use of color that suggests and refers to natural elements. Certainly, I have a colorist's concerns, although my color choice is based on instinct and feeling. I use color to give my composition a sense of mood and place that is remembered rather than observed."