Since that time, we have worked on a number of pieces – both blown and kiln-formed – which continue her conversations among objects and processes, repetition of forms and modular multiples, photographs and their subjects, rendered again as objects. Far from being a glass artist, Gay is equally facile in executing works using complex industrial processes as well as homespun crafty-crafts. I’m pleased to have had the continuing experience of helping her to realize her ideas, and this is exactly the kind of client and relationship I think sets my studio apart from so many other production-only studios.

Gay is mounting a solo show at Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco for the month of February. The opening reception is Thursday, Feb 5 from 5:30 – 7:30. Here is a bit of background lifted from the show’s press release:

For over twenty years Gay Outlaw has used the camera to examine the representation of three-dimensional objects in the 2-D photograph. Over time her studio practice grew to feature 3-D artworks using unconventional materials such as prepared food. Working with pattern, repetition and manipulating the illusion of sculptural space, she draws our attention to depth, shadow, weight and proportion. Gay’s work plays actual depth against the illusion of depth, and subverts expectations given to familiar shapes and materials. Combining glass, wood, bronze, cloth, papier-maché and cardboard, her new works are richly playful adventures.

Gay has shown her work nationally, including exhibitions at the Sculpture Center in New York, the University Art Museum, Cal State Long Beach, the Berkeley Art Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her works are in the collections of the SFMOMA, Berkeley Art Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the di Rosa Preserve in Napa.

See more of Gay’s work at her website.

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