Gail Rodney was born in Westchester, Pennsylvania in 1946. She began to study art in

her mid-thirties at the National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts in New York in a painting class

that took students out on the city streets. She has been painting and drawing the Chappaquiddick and

Martha's Vineyard Massachusetts landscape since the late 1970s, working first in watercolor and

later in pastel and oil. A board member of the Martha’s Vineyard Art Association, she exhibits there

annually as well as in New York City.

Artist’s Statement

The process of making art is a meditation: I work best when I do not think about the outcome

but concentrate on seeing and capturing. Through art I celebrate the experience

of light falling on an object in a particular way. I have been most drawn to landscapes, water and

domestic still lifes. Though I work predominantly in a realistic style, I believe the abstract elements

of a picture are more important than subject matter. Drawing and painting deepen my appreciation and

observation of nature, and I want to convey the pleasure of those observations in my work.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS

Old Sculpin Gallery, Edgartown, MA; 1996-2006

Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Exhibition, National Arts Club, 2004

Gallery of Graphic Arts, New York City, November/December 2000; group show, 2002; 2005

Gracie Square Art Show, 2004

West Side Arts Coalition, New York City: December, 2001, March, 2002, May, 2003, March 2004

The Cosmopolitan Club: Small Pastels, September 1999, May 2003

All Island Art Show, Martha’s Vineyard; 1994-2005

 Dragonfly Gallery, Oak Bluffs, MA; group show, September/October 1999/2000

Featherstone Farm, Oak Bluffs, MA; group show, July, 1999; October, 2002

Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Fair; First Place, Pastel, 1998

The Firehouse Gallery, Oak Bluffs, MA: 1996, 1997, 1999

The New York Historical Society Bookstore, New York City: May 1996 to March 1997

Bannerman’s Island Art Auctions, Cornwall, NY: 1997-1999

National Arts Club, New York City: March, 1987, October, 1994

Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, group show, New York City: April, 1985

EDUCATION:

Swarthmore College, 1964-66

Columbia University, 1967-69; BA in English Literature

National Academy of Design, 1978-80, Certificate in Painting

Studied with Reeve Schley, III, Wolf Kahn, Casimir Rutkowsky,

Life Drawing, Jennifer Cecere, 1996-2003

Courses at the School of Visual Arts, New York University, Parsons and Pratt Institute

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