FIAT LUX
Art Access
June 2022
FROM UNDERNEATH
Gail Grinnell and Samuel Wildman
Oxbow Residency Georgetown Seattle
September 2018
Recommended by “the Stranger” Art Events
In Seattle during WWII, fake trees, fake buildings, and fake neighborhoods were created by Hollywood set designers to camouflage wartime manufacturing from foreign adversaries. Our show at Oxbow takes as its starting point the faithful re-creation of a few of the fake trees, removed from their original context.
Our re-creation of these trees at Oxbow is meant to be seen from underneath, rather than above, where the materials we used can be most easily distinguished from the overall form intended. From up close, any real attempt at the illusion of a tree falls apart and what the viewer experiences instead are rough and provisional materials clinging to some recycled timbers– the sole representatives of a forest.
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CYCLONE FENCE II AND SHAWL
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, WA
temporary installation
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WE ARE A CROWD OF OTHERS
Three's a Crowd at MadArt Studio
The Seattle Times
Alan Berner
2016
Vignettes
Q&A with Michelle Peñaloza and Eric John Olson
Family Tree - Gail Grinnell, Samuel Wildman and Eric John Olson
Arts and Culture: Fall Arts Preview 2016
Jim Demetre
photo by Haley Young
HIDE
Out of Sight: King Street Station
Suyama Space Publication
Installation Curator: Beth Sellars
2016
ANGLE OF REPOSE
Review: Gail Grinnell - Sculpture
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Sculpture Magazine
Chris Schnoor
2015
Gail Grinnell: “Angle of Repose” at the Boise Art Museum
Art Ltd. Magazine, page 37
Christopher Schnoor
2014
RUFFLE
Gail Grinnell, Ruffle
Suyama Space, Itinerary, Seattle
Sculpture Magazine, November 2012
VOL 31, #9
At Suyama Space: Sophisticated 'Ruffle'
Special to Seattle Times
Robert Ayers
2012
Sewing for Ghosts: Gail Grinnell"s Perfect Mess
The Stranger
Jen Graves
2012
Consumed, Cocooned: Gail Grinnell's Ruffle
City Arts Magazine
Amanda Manitach
2012
Seattle: A Celebration of the Elles
Art LTD
Suzanne Beals
2012
Time Lines
Suyama Space, Seattle, WA
Janet Koplos
2012
TINKER TAILOR
Gail Grinnell: tinker, tailor, mender, maker
Catalog essay by Patricia Watkinson, published by Jean Behnke
LIGHTLY HERE
Bellevue Arts Museum
Conversations
Interview with Gail Grinnell by Stefano Catalani
Fall News, 2009
BITTER LOVE, AT FRANCINE SEDERS GALLERY
Gail Grinnell: Bitter Love
Fiber Arts Magazine
Suzanne Beal
April/May 2007
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Grinnell's Collages Embody Life’s Ephemeral Essences
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Judy Wagonfeld
December 15, 2006
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Bitter Love Booklet
Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
Elizabeth Bryant and Lucia Enriquez
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Artdish
Forum: DECEMBER
Jim Demetre
2006
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SEATTLE - OAXACA
North-South, Printmaking in Seattle and Oaxaca
Seattle Print Arts, Vol. 4, #1
Deborah Caplow
Fall, 2003
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IMBUE
Imbue - Francine Seders Gallery
Seattle Weekly
Jim Demetre
June 27, 2002
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JACOB LAWRENCE GALLERY
4x4: Four Artists x Four Decades
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
University of Washington Seattle, WA
July 2000
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LARSON GALLERY
Layered Histories
Lynda K. Rockwood and Gail Grinnell
Larsen Gallery, Yakima, WA
Cheryl H. Hahn, Director and Curator
2008
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ONIONS
Abstraction From Nature
Seattle Weekly
Seattle Arts Museum Rental Sales Gallery
Anna Fahey
June 29, 2000
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NORTHWESTERNERS
LA Weekly
Northwesterners Exhibition Page
Fresh Paint Art Advisors Culver City, CA
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FABRICATION
The Fabrication of History
Willamette Week, Portland, Oregon
Vol. 24, Issue 23
Archer Gallery, Clark College Vancouver, WA
Kate Bonansinga
April 8, 1998
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OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH
Gail Grinnell at Francine Seders Gallery
Seattle Times - Hot Ticket
February 8, 1999
These silk tissue paper and cellophane collages are part of Gail Grinnell's installation called "Out of Whole Cloth" at the Francine Seders Gallery.
ART ACCESS
Material Memory
Art Access, Feature Article, Seattle
Elizabeth Bryant
February, 1996
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THE ART GYM
"Endowment: Refittings” - A Curators Statement
The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, OR
Elizabeth Bryant
January/February 1995
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