GAIL SALZMAN . Bio

Gail Salzman was born in Port Chester NY.  She received a degree in painting from Indiana University, and later attended Skowhegan School and NY Studio School.  Salzman's early work was influenced by the bold figures of the San Francisco Bay Area painters; in recent years her imagery has grown increasingly abstract while retaining its luminous color and painterly quality.

Salzman has exhibited throughout the East Coast for over 25 years. In the 2005 New Turf exhibition catalog, Fleming 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 Furchgott-Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne VT, 2010, and at Southern Vermont Arts Center, 2008. A solo show of Gail's new work is scheduled for 2013 at the BCA Center (formerly Firehouse Gallery) in Burlington.

Salzman earned early recognition with a National Endowment for the Arts painting award shortly after college. More recently she has received 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.

An art instructor at Community College of VT and Burlington City Arts, Gail lives and paints in northern Vermont.