Gale Antokal

  First Time Art Party Participant

Place #11

Artist’s Website

www.galeantokal.com

Artist’s Statement

My drawings are made with mixtures of white chalk, graphite, flour and ash. Personal history is always present in my artwork, whether straightforward or oblique. This first hand experience might not be the subject matter itself, but a filter through which I perceive subjects. I am preoccupied with the question of what we leave behind to prove that we have existed. I use photo sources that are original, from books and the Internet as the basis of my work. I construct a meaning in my work that is not apparent in the photo, in order to anchor my memory, so that it is a constant from which I can work.

About the Artist

Born in New York, New York
Lives and works in Berkeley, California

EDUCATION:
BA Long Island University, Greenvale, NY
BFA California College of the Arts
MFA California College of the Arts

TEACHING
San Jose State University, Department of Art and Art History, Professor

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2014 “EXO” Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, California (Oct-Nov. 2014)
2012 “Blossom” Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, California
2012 “The Spill” (DVD) Installation, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UC Berkeley
2011 “Some Drawings” Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 “Out of the Blue” Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 “No Vanishing Point” Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, California
2007 “The Messengers” Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2005 “We Are So Lightly Here II” Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2004 “We Are So Lightly Here I” Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, California
2001 Blumenstock Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2000 Past Accounts Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1999 Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, California
1998 Recent Drawings, Weintraub-Thomas Gallery, Sacramento, California
1997 Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, California
1997 Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California

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