Gail Camhi's art background began "officially" at age 14, when she studied beginner's painting and drawing with Paul Waldman at The Brooklyn Museum Art School (1963-1966).
She holds a B.A. from Hunter College in NYC (1967-1973), a studio art major with English lit. minor. She studied painting and drawing at Hunter with Doug Ohlson, Bob Huot, Kendall Shaw, Mac Wells, Robert Richenburg, and a host of other artists.
Growing progressively bored with limitations she perceived inherent in the Pop/ Op / Minimalist mindset, while at Hunter she ventured a class in still photography with Hollis Frampton, and soon completely dropped all painting forays. Gail studied still photography from 1970-1972, at which time Prof. Frampton inaugurated brand-new courses in 8mm filmmaking. She ventured there as well.
On word that Frampton had landed a teaching job at S.U.N.Y./ Buffalo's new Center for Media Study, she relocated to Buffalo in 1973 to pursue graduate studies in avant-garde 16mm filmmaking, theory and film history with Frampton, Paul Sharits and Tony Conrad. She returned to NYC in 1975 to continue independent film work, participating in numerous group screenings and one-woman shows across the U.S.
In 1977 she won a National Endowment for the Arts Media Arts grant, funding production of "Bellevue Film", a 16mm color, silent 22-minute non-documentary concerning physical therapy at NYC's Bellevue Hospital. From 1977 to 1985 she published essays on the films of Stan Brakhage and Andrew Noren in Film Culture, and also wrote for The Downtown Review and Cinematograph. In 1982, on a subsequent grant from NY State Arts Council, she relocated to San Francisco to continue her film work. In 1984 she won a Western Regional Filmmakers Award from Rocky Mountain Film Center in Boulder.
Also during 1984 it was confirmed that her NY film lab had accidentally tossed her original 16mm films during a change of address. Gail took refuge with a fast return to painting, this time using watercolors, about which she happily declared that she knew "nothing". Having no training in technique she found afforded her a welcome freedom from preconceived esthetic tracks.
The 20 years since have been filled with happy discoveries in
watercolor
painting methods, using modified wet-on-wet techniques. Gail has
given a
number of Bay Area watercolor painting workshops, and spent 17 years on
staff at
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, her final 7 years there as
museum
slide librarian.
Offers may be made for any painting not shown as "Sold".
Those shown as "Sale Pending" have terms negotiated,
but the transaction has not be completed and still could become available.
Prices generally range from $750 to over $2000 and are negotiable.
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