Gayle Midnight

Gayle Midnight is an internationally acclaimed award-winning artist whose work has been featured in countless magazines and publications worldwide. She has exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States, Europe, and Asia, and her art can be found in numerous private collections around the globe.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Several years back I discovered I have grapheme–color synesthesia, an involuntary process by which the brain utilizes color as a primary means of association and organization of concepts.

For as long as I can remember I have always seen the world as combinations of colors. Letters, numbers, words, names: these are all mapped out in my mind within specific color matrices. This unconscious color instinct has always driven my art, but it also extends into other creative realms.

Many of my paintings begin with poems. Functioning like sketches, my poems are lyrical abstractions of specific memories, emotions, and experiences, which form the basis of my paintings through deliberate juxtapositions and exaggerations of ingrained color choices. Utilizing the rhythm and meter of words to draw meaning from complex color associations, my poems are the first step towards visually translating the essence of ideas into ...

EDUCATION

Pepperdine University
Malibu California

SACI College of Art & Design
Florence Italy

University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California

CERTIFICATES, AWARDS & HONORS

Lululemon Featured Artist
San Francisco, California, 2022

Recipient: HOW Design Award
Los Angeles, California, 2010


Recipient: CASE District VII Award in Visual Identity Systems
Los Angeles, California, 2009


Selected Artist, Studio Arts College International
Florence, Italy 1999

Grant recipient, Santa Barbara Foundation
Santa Barbara, California 1998

Grant recipient, Santa Barbara Foundation
Santa Barbara, California 1996


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Chasing Rainbows
Creative IQ, San Francisco, California
October-December 2023

Lululemon Featured Artist
In-store Art Pop-Up
Live Painting
Lululemon San Francisco, California
October-November 2022

Blush
iCandy Gallery, Los Angeles, California
April 2006

Body Kanji
Gallery Yusuian, Osaka, Japan
April-May 2003

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Salon des Refusés
Four Chicken Gallery, San Francisco, California
August 2023

ArtWalk SF
Art Pop-Up, Poesia, San Francisco, California
June 2022

Portfolio of Creative Work 4
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, California
May 2011

Portfolio of Creative Work 3
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, California
May 2010

Portfolio of Creative Work 2
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, California
May 2009

Over Hung 2008
Concrete Walls Gallery, Los Angeles, California
December 2008

Portfolio of Creative Work
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, California
April-May 2008

The Bird Show
Cactus Gallery, Eagle Rock, California
January-February 2008

Tiny Treasures
Cactus Gallery, Eagle Rock, California
December 2007-January 2008

Exceedingly Way Too Over Hung
Concrete Walls Gallery, Los Angeles, California
December 2007

Way Too Over Hung
Concrete...