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Gail Spaien
  • Home
  • Portfolio
    • Light In Every Room
    • New Paintings
    • Backyard Drift
    • A Painting is a Place
    • "Before the taking of a toast and tea"
    • Anchored Out
    • Still Life with Water
    • Cottage Bonsai
    • Renegade Mirage
    • Open Window 3
    • Serenade
    • Still Life
    • Botanical Archive Projects
    • Open Window 1
    • Open Window 2
    • Notebook Pages
    • Between
    • In Winter
    • Charm
    • Counting
    • Samplers and Mourning paintings
  • News
  • Statement
  • Notes on Painting
  • CV
  • Bio
  • Links
  • Contact
© GAIL SPAIEN
Website by OtherPeoplesPixels
  • Interview with Brainard Carey
    Yale University Radio, Museum of Nonvisible Art
    Here's the link museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/ga…


  • Seattle Art Fair
    studio e gallery
    July 25 – 28

    Foundations
    Artsy Art Fair
    July 23 - August 12
    online

  • Residency Award
    Ucross Foundation
    February 2024


    www.ucrossfoundation.org/residency-prog…

  • Gail Spaien and Heather Wilcoxon
    studio e gallery
    Dates: October 3 - 28, 2023
    Location: 609 S Brandon Street Seattle, WA 98108

    studioegallery.net/

    Here is a link to the artist talk at the opening
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksb8EuNKHqs

  • A Painting is a Place
    Taymour Grahne Projects
    With essay written by Ben Street

    Dates: April 15 – May 13, 2023
    Location: The Artist Room, 52 Lonsdale Road, W11 2DE
    Opening: April 15, 2023
    London,England
    taymourgrahne.com/

  • Center for Maine Contemporary Art
    Interior
    October 1 - January 8, 2023
    cmcanow.org/exhibitions/

  • Nancy Margolis Gallery
    "Before the taking of a toast and tea"
    Catalog with essay by Michelle Grabner

    November 1, 2022 - January 6, 2023
    Listen to the gallery talk by clinking this link:
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6DqGpvQhEU

  • studioe gallery
    Seattle, WA
    August - September, 2021
    studioegallery.net/exhibitions

  • Interview
    Nancy Margolis Gallery
    Moderated by Julie Poitras Santos
    www.nancymargolisgallery.com/news/zoom-…

  • Award
    Hopper Prize
    Finalist
    hopperprize.org/spring-2019-grant-winne…

  • Publication
    Maine Arts Journal
    Spring Edition
    Gail Spaien: Anchoring and Suspension and Gravity and Light
    by Carl Little
    maineartsjournal.com/

  • Maine Jewish Museum
    Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
    Skowhegan School Artists
    May 13 - June 25, 2021
    mainejewishmuseum.org/current-exhibits/…

  • Nancy Margolis Gallery
    NMG Summer Pop Up
    May 4 - July 10, 2021
    www.nancymargolisgallery.com/

  • Publication
    Radar Poetry
    Edition 26+27
    www.radarpoetry.com/issue-26-toc

  • Maine Jewish Museum
    Portland, ME
    Fall 2020
    mainejewishmuseum.org/

  • George Marshall Store Gallery
    York, ME
    Fall 2020
    georgemarshallstoregallery.com/

  • Installation at the David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
    Collection Curator: Cade Tompkins Projects
    New York, NY
    www.cadetompkinsprojects.com/clients/ms…

  • Residency
    Varda Artist Residency
    Sausalito, CA
    Winter 2020
    www.vardaartistsresidency.to/


  • AD Gallery, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
    Gail Spaien: Bonzai Cottage
    Pembroke, NC
    August 29 - September 27, 2019
    Opening: August 29
    www.uncp.edu/departments/art/ad-gallery…


  • Nancy Margolis Gallery
    Flowering: Inside/Outside
    New York, NY
    Opening: June 13, 6:00 - 8:00
    June 13 - July 27, 2019
    www.nancymargolisgallery.com/

  • William Ulmer Brewery
    SPF 32
    81-83 Beaver Street, Bushwick
    Brooklyn, NY

    Opening: June 15, 5- 8:00
    June 15 - August 1, 2019

    Curated by: Madeleine Mermall


  • Carol Calo Gallery
    Renegade Mirage
    Stonehill College, Easton, MA
    January 18, 2019
    www.stonehill.edu/community-global-enga…


  • Able Baker Contemporary
    Perfection
    Curator: Hilary Irons
    January 2019
    ablebakercontemporary.com/home.html


  • George Marshall Store Gallery
    Curators Choice
    Curator: Mary Harding
    November 18, 2018
    www.georgemarshallstoregallery.com/wp-c…


  • Ogunquit Museum of American Art
    Serenade
    Curator: Andres Verzosa
    June 1 - 30, 2017
    ogunquitmuseum.org/exhibitions-collecti…


  • Institute of Contemporary Art
    American Genre: Contemporary Painting
    Curator: Michelle Grabner
    August - September 2017
    www.meca.edu/about/institute-of-contemp…

  • George Marshall Store Gallery
    Taking Flight
    September 2017
    www.georgemarshallstoregallery.com


  • Provincetown Art Association and Museum
    Lillian Orlowsky William Freed Foundation Grantee Exhibition
    October 20 - December 3, 2017
    www.paam.org/


  • The Museum of Art at the University of New Hampshire
    NHCF Anniversary Exhibition
    October 26 - November 15, 2017
    cola.unh.edu/pcac/exhibitions


  • Institute of Contemporary Art
    Bountiful
    Curator: Sage Lewis
    August - September 2016
    www.meca.edu/about/institute-of-contemp…

  • 2016 Grant recipient
    Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation



  • Coastal Maine Botanical Garden
    Still-Lifes and Botanicals
    July 2016
    www.mainegardens.org

  • George Marshall Store Gallery
    20 Year Anniversary Highlights
    November 2015
    www.georgemarshallstoregallery.com

  • upcoming:
    University of Maine Press
    Maine Art New: Contemporary Perspectives, Beam and Verzosa

  • Open Studio Press
    New American Painting, Issue 116
    Juror: Michelle Grabner

  • Maine Home and Design
    Annual Art Issue
    March 2014

  • Aucocisco Galleries
    Dozier Bell and Gail Spaien
    April 2014
    www.aucocisco.com

  • University of New England
    New Acquisitions
    March 2014
    www.une.edu/artgallery

  • Boston Globe, Review 4/2/13
    New Paintings
    www.milleryezerskigallery.com/
    www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/20…

  • Boston Globe, Critic's Pick 3/13/13
    New Paintings
    www.ellenmillergallery.com

  • Ellen Miller Gallery
    New Paintings
    March 1 - April 10, 2013
    www.milleryezerskigallery.com/

  • ICA Portland, ME
    The World Over
    November/December, 2012
    Portland, ME

  • Down East Magazine
    Maine Art in Season, Edgar Allen Beem
    May, 2011
    www.downeast.com/magazine/2011/may

  • NHCF Artist Advancement Grant
    The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Piscataqua Region Artists Advancement Grant provides financial support up to $25,000 for one year to individual visual artists and craftspeople in the Piscataqua region to promote their artistic growth.
    www.nhcf.org

  • Museums of Old York, George Marshall Store Gallery
    Momentum
    April 23, 2011
    www.georgemarshallstoregallery.com

  • Light and Heavy Connections 'Between'
    Gail Spaien and Ahmed Alsoudani
    Portland Phoenix, November 16, 2010, Nicholas Shroeder
    "Spaien employs a structural gambit to marvelous effect: her frames are mounted low on the gallery wall, below waist level, lending her work a relationship to heaviness. Spaien patterned the walls on her side of the gallery with grids and florets, lending the gallery the stillness of a fossilized arboretum."
    portland.thephoenix.com/arts

  • Aucocisco Galleries
    Between, Gail Spaien and Ahmed Alsoudani
    November 2010
    www.aucocisco.com

  • Boston Globe
    Winter's Weight and What Lies Below
    Feb 17, 2010

    "The first thing you notice about "In Winter,'' Gail Spaien's exhibit at Miller Block Gallery, is that her watercolor and gouache paintings hang at floor level; two actually rest on the floor ..."
    www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles…

  • COMMUNITY PROJECT: Portland Museum of Art
    A Garden Grows in the Great Hall
    A creative collaboration of families and children who came to the Portland Museum of Art on Saturday, May 22, 2010.

© GAIL SPAIEN
Website by OtherPeoplesPixels