About Gale Jamieson

Gale Jamieson
Artist Statement

I have always had a love for making things, particularly the process of making. It is alive; the interaction with the material is an ongoing conversation. If I listen well, history and memory resonate and relationships emerge. The passage of time leaves tracks in many ways.

I am drawn to indigenous cultures whose art, daily life, and customs are clearly connected to the natural world and their spiritual life. Through my work, I examine my belief system and look to define spirituality from personal experiences. Each piece is a story, a journal of moments, reflecting our culture and the human experience.

Handling and exploring the material is important to me. The material and its nature is source, not just the means. Often I work in traditional ways with untraditional materials, integrating natural materials with found, synthetic, and man-made objects. All of which reveal links to the human drama, and the piece then extends that dialogue out into the world. By changing the context in which an ordinary object is experienced, seeing the ordinary in a non-ordinary way, there can be a shift in perception.

Gale Jamieson

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Creative Alliance at the Patterson, Baltimore, MD
2009 Chesapeake Gallery. (HCC) Bel Air, MD; IDEA seeking FORM
2008 Yorkarts, York, PA; the dreaming...seeking form
          North Harford High School, Inscription of Hope Project, Pylesville, MD
2005 Greenmount School, Baltimore, MD; Installation: The Apron Project
2003 Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD; A Sense of Place: Nature, Culture, & Legends
2002 Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE; Threads
          Chesapeake Gallery. (HCC) Bel Air, MD; Fiber in Form
2001 Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; the Earth...our body, the Water...our blood
1998 School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD; … the space in between...
1996 Halcyon Gallery, Fells Point, MD; Found/Altered; Curators: Daniel Shiavone & Megan Hamilton
1995 School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD; Installation: Passage

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC; "Bilateral Engagement"; Curator: Laura Roulet
2009 Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
          James Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
          Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
2008 Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA
          Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA
          Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
2007 Lancaster , Lancaster, PA; Fiber National
          Fullercraft Museum, Brockton, MA; Pulp Function; Curator: Lloyd Herman
          Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA; Equinox; Curator: Lorie Mertes
          Brookfield Center, Brookfield, CT; Fiber Cartography: Mapping Imagination & Experience; Curator: Liz Good
          Yorkarts, York, PA; 10 Year Anniversary Retrospective; Invitational
2006 State Museum of PA, Harrisburg, PA; Art of the State 2006
          Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD; Sculptors Incoroporated; Invitational
          Howard County Art Center, Ellicott City, MD, Combining Forces; Juried
          Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD; Hair, Juried
          Olivia’s House, York, PA; Metamorphosis; Invitational
2005 Surface Design International Conference, Kansas City, MO; Constants & Variables
2004 National Geographic Museum, Washington DC; Mapping from Paper to Pixels
2002 Yorkarts, York, PA; Contained/Transformed
          Rockford College, Rockford, IL; Unconventional Threads
2001 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; Sculpture Now; Juried
2000 Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ; Summer Exhibition; Juror: Brooke Barre
          Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA; Uncommon Threads; Curator: Cindi Morrison
          Evergreen Museum, JHU, Baltimore, MD; Sculpture at Evergreen; Curator: Cindy Kelly; Juror: Michael Brenson
          Decker Gallery; MD Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Culture of Class, Curator: Will Hipps
          57 N Fine Art, Washington, DC; Birth; Curators: Sarah Tanquy & Randy Jewart
          Halcyon Gallery, Fells Point, MD; Invitational; Curator: Margaret Footner
          Rockford College, Rockford, IL; Four Women Four Voices; Curator: Philip Soosloff
1999 Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, Reuse/Renew
          Yorkarts, York, PA; Off the Wall (two person show)
          Holtzman Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Strictly Tactile; Invitational
1998 National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland; Art for Omagh
          Projectspace, WPA/Corcoran & A. Salon, Ltd., Washington, DC; Installation: Circle of Quiet;
          Curator: Milena Kalinovska
          Artscape, Baltimore, MD; Advanced Notices; Curator: Valerie Maynard
1996 Fells Point Creative Alliance, Fells Point, MD; The Big Show; Sculpture Invitational
          Chesapeake Gallery, Harford Community College, MD; Sculpture Invitational
          Mill River Gallery, Ellicott City, MD; Dozen; Juried Biennial Exhibition
1995 Newhouse Center Galleries, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY; In Three
          Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the 90’s; Curator: Charlotte Streifer Rubenstein
          Liriodendron Mansion, BelAir, MD; Sculpture Garden; Curator: Susan Issacs
          Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD; Critic’s Picks; Curators: Liz Kotz & Brian Wallis
          Small Sculpture Exchange to Korea; Traveling Exhibition
1994 School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD; Spring Juried Exhibition
          Sculptors Incorporated at Washington Square, Washington, DC; Curator: Tex Andrews
          Baltimore City Hall Galleries, Baltimore, MD; Decade
1993 MD Federation of the Arts, Annapolis, Mill; Emerging Artists; Curator: Raol Middleman
          MD Federation of the Arts, Annapolis, MD; Fall Juned Show
1992 Essex Community College, Essex, MD; Covenant: Rites in the Tribal Construct
          Dundalk Art Gallery, Dundalk Community College, MD
1991 Union Gallery.Towson University, MD
          Elkton Arts Center Gallery, Cecil County Arts Council, MD

AWARDS
2006 State Museum of PA; Art of the State Exhibit; Third Prize
2003 Grant & Residency; Andy Warhol Foundation & Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
2002 Creative Fellowship Program; Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
          Residency: Tyrone Guthrie Center; Annaghmakerrig, Ireland (VCCA juried exchange program)
          Residency with David Nash; Atlantic Center for the Arts, Smyrna Beach, FL
          Residency: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA); Sweet Briar, VA
1997 Residency: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA); Sweet Briar, VA
1996 New Forms Regional Project Grant, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
2008  Artist-in-Residence & Central Asia Institute Project, North Harford High School,, Pylesville, MD
2006 Artist’s Books; Harford Community College, Baltimore, MD
2005 Drumming and Drawing from the Senses Workshop, Patterson Theater, Baltimore, MD
2004 Druming and Drawing from the Senses Workshop, Harford Community College; Balttimore, MD
1999 Conducted Children’s Creative Workshop; Yorkarts, York, PA
1998 Co-facilitated “Tree of Peace Project”; component of a traveling community studies program,
          The Academy, New Paltz, NY
          Conducted Mask Making Workshop & Exhibition; York County Homeschoolers
          Steering Committee and Grantwriter; Sculptors Inc., Baltimore, MD
1997 Conducted Clay Sculpture Workshop; Monteverde Institute, Costa Rica
          Steering and Exhibitions Committee; Sculptors Inc., Baltimore, MD
1996 Steering Committee and Newsletter; Sculptors Inc., Baltimore, MD)

BIBLIOGRAPH
2008 Cartography: Artists & Maps;byKitty Harmon, Princeton Architectual Press; (Contributor)
2006 Fiberarts Magazine; Sampling: Maps; Contributor; (Summer issue)
2005 York Daily Record; Feature article by Jennifer Vogelsong
2002 Philadelphia City Paper, On the Clothes; Artpick by Juliet Fletcher
2001 Passager; The Forgetting Issue; Cover
2000 The Daily Chronicle (Chicago, IL); Four Women-Four Voices; by Ben Mahmould (12/3)
          Baltimore Magazine; The Women of Evergreen House; by Hannah Feldman; Contributor (August issue)
          Central PA Life Magazine; Patches of Central PA; by Bonnie Helium Brechbill (June issue)
          Lancaster Intelligencer Journal; Weaving Tangled Tapestries; Feature article by Michael Long (4/14)
          Catalog: Sculpture at Evergreen
1999 York Dispatch (York PA); Artist Brings Life to Ordinary Pieces; Feature article by Jason Katz (4/22)
1998 The Baltimore Sunpaper; Etchings from Photos Rich in Detail; by John Dorsey (12/22)
          The City Paper (Baltimore, MD); Mixed Messages; by Mike Guiliano (12/30)
          Sculptors Ink (Baltimore, MD); Interview by Shawn Fischer (June)
          Catalog: Installations Project; Projectspace; Contributor
1996 The Baltimore Sunpaper; Stocking Up on ideas; Feature article by Carl Shoettler (3/17)
1995 Catalog In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the 90’s, Contributor
          Washington Review (Washington, DC); MAP Critic’s Resideny Program, articles by Liz Kotz and Katherine Carl
1994 Catalog: Decade. Sculptors, Inc. Celebrates Ten Years; Contributor
1992 Video: TSU Sculpture Coalition at Dundalk Community College
1977 Fine Woodworking Biennial Design Book Editors of Fine Woodworking Magazine; The Taunton Press,
          Newtown, CT; Contributor
1976 The Sunday Times (Salisbury, MD); Woodcarver Works Out of Hebron Studio; Feature article by Dick Fleming

EDUCATION
1994 Bachelor of Arts, Towson University, MD
1972 Associate of Arts, Anne Arundel Community College, MD
1969 Undergraduate Studies, Maryland Institute of Art, MD

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