Faces + Figures: Ann Gale

The UMass Lowell Department of Art & Design is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Seattle painter Ann Gale, titled Ann Gale: Faces + Figures. The exhibition will be open from September 4 – October 9, 2019. Ann Gale will present a lecture to the campus and to the public on Tues., Sept. 17 at 3:30 p.m. Weed Lecture Hall 3, followed by a reception in the University Gallery from 5:00–6:30 p.m. These events are free, wheelchair accessible, and open to the public.

Ann Gale is an American painter whose work features fractured segments of color that depict human figures.  Her paintings are fraught with psychological tension and she often spends months or even years with a single painting.  Her work shares an affinity with painters such as Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, and Antonio Lopez-Garcia.  Art critic John Motley from Portland, Oregon wrote that “Perhaps the most affecting aspect of Gale’s work is the unnerving disparity between the vulnerability of her subjects—both physically and emotionally—and the emotion their faces actually reveal. Instead, body language more often communicates their sorrow.”