Gale Gibbs
9949 Waterfront Tr.
Rockwall, Tx. 75087
972-412-4518, 281-217-7137

Education:

Bachelor of Fine Art, Cameron University Lawton, Oklahoma
Graduate Studies, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, Teaching Fellow 

 

Solo Exhibitions (2000-11):

The Hidden, the Quiet, the Grand, works by Gale Gibbs, Mesquite Arts Center, Mesquite, Tx.  Feb 12 - March 30, 2011

Two Person Show, Beth Cartland and Gale Gibbs, Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, Oklahoma-April 2002

Group Exhibitions (2000-11): (selected)

 Heart and Soul of the Great Plains, 3rd Invitational, Leslie Powell Gallery, Comanche National Museum and Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton, Oklahoma November 2010

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Tx., Sept. 24, 2010  Curated by Gail M. Brown, independent curator of contemporary craft from Philadelphia, PA; Cindy Hickok, internationally acclaimed fiber artist from Houston, TX; and Paula Owen, president of the Southwest School of Arts and Crafts in San Antonio, TX, and a practicing artist.

Magic Mirrors and Alter Egos, Invitational, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Enrique Fernández Cervantes, Visual Arts Coordinator and Curator of the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, curated this exhibition., Dallas, TX. Sept. 5, 2009

Sketchbook Project, Art House, Atlanta, Ga. Feb. 2009
Houston City Hall Project, Houston City Hall annex, Houston, Tx. March 2007, March 2009
“In the Mind’s Eye” Sippora Art Gallery, Houston, Texas, Houston, Texas-Feb., 2003
Houston Women’s Caucus for Art 25th Anniversary,The Foundry, Houston, Texas (Show Piece Place) 2003

FORT SMITH ART QUEST 2000 Fort Smith Civic Center, Fort Smith, Arkansas January-June 2001
Juror Exhibitions 2000-11(selected):

Third Annual Surreal Salon, Baton Rouge Gallery, Center for contemporary Art, Baton Rouge, La.  sculptor Chris Ryniak, Juror,  01/04/11 through 01/27/11

"What Texas Means to Me", Austin Art Space, Austin, Tx.  Jerry Seagle, juror, July 11, 2009  Second Place

Hunting Art Prize Finalist, Decorative Center, Houston, Tx. 5, 2009
American Jurored Art Salon, Online exhibition, 6 months 5, 2009
Hunting Art Prize Finalist, Decorative Art Center, Houston, Texas, April 2007
Vast Arts, Juror, Karen Kunc, Denton, Tx. April 2007
“paperworks, On and of paper University of West Florida,”,Pensacola, Fl 32514, February 2007
Katherine Butler Gallery, Sarasota, Florida May, 2006
Texas National 2005, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas.  James Surls, Juror April 2005

Oklahoma: Centerfold, 2004, 11th Biennial National Juried Art Show, (traveling to University of Sciences and Arts, USAO Gallery, Chickasha, Oklahoma Nov. 2004- March 2005
AJAS, Richardson, Tx. October – December 2005
47th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, 2004 , Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua N.Y. Donald Kuspit, juror, Chautauqua, N.Y. June 2004
The Dishman Competition, Dishman Museum, Lamar University, Beaumont, Tx., Dewey F. Mosby, Picker Art Gallery , Colgate University, Juror, March 2004
The Second Seven State Biennial, Juror: Carl Beesley, Chickasha, Oklahoma November 2003, traveling to Leslie Powell Gallery, January 2004
Rock Wall Arts Alliance, Rockwall Texas, Juror: Nancy Whitenack, Conduit Gallery, PURCHASE AWARD 2000

 

Publications :

Moulin Review, July 2010,art, brookhaven college, literature, moulin review, Poetry, reading, writing

Lawton Constitution, Lawton, Oklahoma March 02
Arts and Entertainment

Awards:

McMahon Foundation Scholarship
Leslie Powell Foundation Scholarship
Helen Holiday Foundation Scholarship
Who’s Who in American Art

One of three chosen by Nine West for pattern design for Spring Collection November, 2011 through Talenthouse, www.talenthouse.com

Various awards in juried exhibitions as shown above