Gael Stack

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Back & Forth: Celebrating Women on July 21, 2020. Back & Forth commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of the gallery and celebrates the centennial of the 19th amendment. The exhibition will continue through September 26.

Presenting sculpture, installation, paintings, drawings, and photographs, this exhibition highlights the varied creative practices and compelling artworks created by the distinguished women represented by the gallery and invites visitors to consider the centennial milestone in the context of a woman-owned business...

“They’re either very big or very small,” Gael Stack says as we stand before her latest set of canvases. “In my life or in my painting, I don’t do middle ground very well.” Her latest exhibition, at Dallas’s Holly Johnson Gallery, on view through May 5, is aptly titled Tinies (her works were also on view in a show of the same name at Houston’s Moody Gallery in Spring 2017). The roughly postcard-sized paintings are precious in their smallness, but they are suffused with the same easygoing elegance as their vaster cousins...

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas pleased to announce Tinies, an exhibition of new work by Gael Stack, featuring new oil paintings on paper. A reception for the artist will be held Saturday, February 24, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. The exhibition continues through May 5, 2018.

Gael Stack is one of the most accomplished American painters working today. Her ‘tiny’ paintings on paper are full of mystery, like intimate interior universes awash in cryptic messages and enigmatic figures. Her mark-making, both dreamy and unsettling, looks as if it could dissolve before it is fully formed - evidence of a mind in constant "shuffle" mode, randomly stumbling onto bits of the past. Every image, regardless of the medium, has a source. And while each body of work Stack creates has its own theme, the influences are fairly constant - and oddly apparent once you know them...

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of Thistle, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Gael Stack…

Stack, who has taught UH for about 40 years, has painted with a consistent vision for decades...

Feminist Art Movement pioneer Stack has taught in the School of Art for 40 years...

Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Forty One Songs, an exhibition of drawings by Gael Stack...

Gael Stack is the first retrospective monograph on the artist's career, which has spanned four decades...

Stack's rich paintings, at Moody Gallery now, echo the unsaid...

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce Gaps, Sinkholes, and other Chasms, an exhibition of new paintings by Gael Stack...