Artist Bio

Gail Vollrath’s work represents the day, current affairs, conversations and events. Sourcing clip art or actual objects (sometimes found) for the representational images that may be present in otherwise abstracted meanderings; Vollrath doesn’t typically plan directly her paintings or drawings. She may have a situation in mind and become very anxious to see the result, not limiting herself to specific materials and medium. Employing everything from aluminum to traditional oil on canvas, she adds tar, china marker, mini-marbles, glitter, and paint pens to achieve complex surfaces and conceptually intriguing finished works. 

 

Gail Vollrath is an exhibiting studio painter and mixed media artist who lives and works in Washington, D.C.  Originally from Chicago, she received her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a full fellowship to Vermont Studio Center in 2000. She has exhibited extensively in the Washington, D.C. area, and has also shown her work in Virginia; New York, South Carolina, and North Carolina.