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Gina Werfel

1951
Long Island, United States

10 Works exhibited on Kooness

Current location

Sacramento, California

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Works by Gina Werfel

Companion

Paintings

30.5 x 30.5cm

1013,00 €

Early Spring

Paintings

76.2 x 55.8cm

1907,00 €

Spatial sense

Paintings

63.5 x 48.2cm

1430,00 €

Gesture 2

Paintings

63.5 x 48.2cm

1430,00 €

Balance

Paintings

63.5 x 48.2cm

1430,00 €

Reflection

2022

Paintings , Mixed Media , Acrylic

76.2 x 55.8cm

2145,00 €

Windswept

2021

Drawings , Mixed Media , Acrylic

127 x 96.5cm

2503,00 €

Woods

2021

Drawings , Mixed Media , Acrylic

45.7 x 36.8cm

1013,00 €

Sunset Route

2019

Paintings , Mixed Media

121.9 x 213.4cm

7806,00 €

Spring

2016

Drawings , Acrylic

76.2 x 56cm

1967,00 €

Gina Werfel is an American abstract painter whose work uses vivid color, lyrical gesture, and complex compositional structures to explore harmonies within visual space. Raised on Long Island, she currently lives and works near Sacramento, California, where she is a Professor of Art at the University of California, Davis. Education Werfel received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Kirkland College (now part of Hamilton College), in Clinton, New York and post-graduated at the New York Studio School. She then earned her Masters of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University in New York. She is also the recipient of a number of prestigious fellowships and grants, and leads a distinguished career as a professor of art, a visiting university lecturer, and an artist in residence at important schools and institutions around the world. Technique Werfel works with a mixture of oils, acrylics and mixed media on canvas. Her background is in landscape painting, which helped her develop a keen eye for light, color relationships, and compositional harmony. As she transitioned into abstraction, she heightened her ability to use those sensibilities to convey emotional and atmospheric states within pictorial space. In her abstract paintings, she employs expressive, lyrical gestures that create bursts of movement and energy. Her color choices create a range of tones from the muted and serene to the vibrant and electric. In addition to traditional brushwork, she incorporates mediums like spray paint and stencils to build layered, complex, and expressive compositions. Inspiration Werfel has studied and taught all over the world. She has found inspiration in the variations between the pictorial landscapes to which she has been exposed: for example, the interplay between the hills and light of Northern California and the textures and colors of Brittany, France. She is interested in the way everyday experiences influence her paintings. She may become inspired early in the day by a spontaneous gesture then be guided later by the view from her studio. In the end, her compositions do not reference any one thing. They are examinations of the qualities of light, transparency and color in space.   Artist statement “Like polyphony in music, Werfel’s work consists of textures of multiple independent “voices” or sources. She layers multiple elements to create painted universes; embedded vestiges of gestures suggest fragments of memories, glimpses inside the studio or outside her window. Werfel creates compositions that echo the spatial complexities of landscapes to which she had been drawn when painting outdoors - tumbling hills or underwater reflections. But now, fragments float in fluid, veiled spaces.” Exhibitions Werfel has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows throughout the United States, with recent solo exhibitions at the American University in Paris, France, and at the Prince Street Gallery in New York City.  
Solo Exhibitions 2018 Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, NJ 2017     American University in Paris, Paris, France Prince Street Gallery, East/West, New York, NY 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 Adler and Co Gallery, San Francisco, He Said, She Said, with Hearne Pardee Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY Stanilar Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA 2012 Alex Bult Gallery, Sacramento, CA 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 Adler& Co Gallery, San Francisco, CA 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) Prince Street Gallery, New York City Monty Stabler Galleries, Birmingham, AL B.Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento CA Mondavi Winery, Vineyard Gallery, Napa, CA Prince Street Gallery, New York City 2001 Prince Street Gallery, New York City 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 Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA Dupont Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA 1993 Monty Stabler Galleries, Birmingham, AL 1992 Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY Congress Square Gallery, Portland, ME 1989 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME Gallery 127, Portland, ME 1986 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ 1985 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY 1983 College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME 1982 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY 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     Alumni Exhibition, NY Studio School, curated by Stephen Harvey and Jennifer Samet 2016           Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley CA Alumni Exhibition, NY Studio School, NYC, curated by Andrew Arnot Winter Art Salon, Park City, Utah, curated by Lucy Buchanan American Embassy, Ljubljana, group show (catalog) 2012                      Tomorrow’s Legacies: Gifts Celebrating the Next 125 Years, Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA Between the Quotes, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA Flatlanders on the Slant Step, Nelson Gallery, Davis, CA 2009          Fourth of July Show, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Artists in Residence, Yosemite Museum, Yosemite, CA The Nature of Landscape, San Francisco Studio School Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008          Surface and Substance, San Francisco Studio School Gallery, San  Francisco, CA Cool and Austere, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 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, Sacramento Valley Landscape Show, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, The Continuous Mark: 40 Years of the New York Studio School, curated by Jennifer Samet, New York Studio School, Sacramento Valley Landscape Show”, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, See California Now, curated by Peter Frank with illustrated brochure, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA, 2003  Gone West, (catalogue&essay by Peter Frank) John Natsoulas Gallery   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 Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA 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 Site 250, Fairbanks, AK Pennsylvania School of Design, Lancaster, PA, curated by Ruth Bernard Contemporary Landscape, curated by Martin Mugar, Art Institute of Boston, Landscape Revisited, Gaumann-Cicchino Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL, traveling to Philadelphia, Washington and New York City, 1989-91 Visions of the Southwest, Area Gallery, Portland, ME 1987 Inaugural Group Show Gallery 127, Portland, ME Artists Who Teach in Maine, curated by Sarah Fawcett, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME Faculty invitational, Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, NY Landscape, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA Juried Alumni Show, New York Studio School, New York, NY, Painters Who Look at the Environment, curated by Tom Higgins, University of Maine, Farmington, ME Juried Show, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME 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 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        ArtMarket San Francisco (Adler& Co) 2009-2010        Los Angeles Art Show (Adler&Co)
2016 American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist, April 2016 2005-2007 International School of Art, Montecastello, Italy, Senior Artist in Residence Yosemite National Park, Artist in Residence Connecticut Arts Commission Grant in Painting 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)