Gail Lehman
USA
The body of works to be on show in Amsterdam 1st till 10th of June 2014 is titled : FRESH PAINT
Gail Lehman was born in New York City and spent her childhood and young adult years on the East coast. Although her major during her years at Cornell University and Harvard University was Government, her fascination with design led her to The New York School of Interior Design and the completion of their graduate design program. Subsequently, she moved to the West coast and in Los Angeles worked for three major International Design firms before relocation to the Monterey Peninsula and striking out on her own. She successfully designed two and one half million square feet of commercial office space, hospitals and schools and was three times the winner of prestigious International Design awards including “The Prix de Femmes International” award. Her work has been featured in “The International Compendium of Women in Design International”. In 2000, she fulfilled a long delayed commitment to devote herself full-time to study painting and through many classes at the college level, personal instruction with some of the Peninsula’s renowned Artists and many workshops, both on the Monterey Peninsula and in France. She has energized her canvases with a great luminosity and sophistication. In her stylistic progression from traditional still life composition and figure painting to abstract and figurative expressionism, she has emerged an artist of merit. Her work has been acquired by collectors in Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berkeley, San Jose, Napa, Idaho, The Monterey Peninsula, New York, Paris, London, Barcelona, and Valencia. In 2013, her painting, “The Lady in Red” will be included in a Private Collection at Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania.