Gael Stack

Gael Stack (born 1941) is a Texas painter. She lives in Houston and has work in the permanent collections of several museums. Stack has worked as a professor at the University of Houston, serving as the art school's director in 2004 and 2005.

Biography

Stack was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Catholic school.[1][2] In 1970, she received a BFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and in 1972, an MFA from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.[1] Stack moved to Houston in 1973.[3]

Stack was honored with the Moores Professorship in 1999 and served as the Director of the University of Houston's school of art from 2004 to 2005.[3]

Work

She was a single mother raising two sons and the feminist movement resonated with her, influencing her "to have her art reflect her reality."[4] However, critic Alison de Lima Greene emphasizes that her art is not just autobiographical, but it is also very literary, borrowing motifs from other paintings and stories.[5] Stack is interested in exploring "language and its limits" and epicting moments in human life through her art.[2][6]

Her work is collected by the Beaux Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,[7][8] the Dallas Museum of Art,[9] the San Antonio Museum of Art, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.[1]

References
  1. Gael Stack. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. 2011. pp. 180, 187. ISBN 9780292728547.
  2. Glentzer, Molly (20 December 2013). "Gael Stack's artistic vision remains constant". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
  3. Byars, Monica (March 2013). "The Unspoken Art of Gael Stack". www.uh.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
  4. Rubinstein, Raphael (2011). "Reinventing the Mystic Writing-Pad". Gael Stack. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. pp. 2–3. ISBN 9780292728547.
  5. de Lima Greene, Alison (2011). "All That Remains". Gael Stack. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. pp. 15–16. ISBN 9780292728547.
  6. Carlozzi, Annette (1986). 50 Texas Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in Texas. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. pp. 76–77. ISBN 0877013993.
  7. "The Christmas Picture | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston". www.mfah.org. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
  8. "Search the Collection | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston". www.mfah.org. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
  9. "DMA and MFAH Announce Gift of the Barrett Collection of Contemporary Texas Art | Dallas Museum of Art". www.dma.org. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
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