Bio

Gail Salzman was born in Port Chester NY and grew up in Syracuse. She began making art at an early age, soaking up weekly art classes at the Everson Museum.

As an art student at Indiana University and the New York Studio School, she was influenced by the colorist tradition of the Fauves, the bold figurative work the Bay Area artists, and the active paint surface of the Abstract Expressionists.

Constantly evolving, Salzman's imagery has grown increasingly abstract while retaining its luminous color and painterly quality. In recent years the improvisational process of printmaking has informed Salzman's visual language. Rolling and scraping techniques have enriched the layered surface that remains integral to her oil paintings.

Gail Salzman has exhibited throughout the East Coast for over 20 years. Her work was included in New Turf at Burlington's Fleming Museum, 2005. In the exhibition catalog, museum curator Evelyn Hankins wrote "Salzman's lush, intricate surfaces, meticulously built up and scraped down, seem to heave and surge in perpetual flux, recalling both the inner cadences of nature and the conversion of experience to memory." Recent solo shows include those at the Furchgott-Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne VT, 2007, and at Southern Vermont Arts Center in 2008.

Salzman is a recipient of a painting award from the NEA and grants from the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Arts Endowment Fund. Her work has received critical acclaim in Art New England among numerous other publications.

Gail Salzman lives and works in northern Vermont.