Gail Norfleet: Connecting Faraway Places

Artist Reception | Friday, November 14, 2025 | 6 pm

Gail Norfleet’s travels to Morocco, Algeria, and New Mexico are the subject of recent multi-dimensional paintings created on transparent layers of Lucite. Norfleet creates complex, vividly-colored “fields” that reveal her love of nature and exotic locales. Fluidly-painted compositions with architectural motifs will be featured in this exhibition, along with a mixture of her past work.

For Norfleet, working on transparent material was a natural progression after years of making monoprints. In her background as a printmaker, she would often use clear plastic plates through which she could see her images before transferring them onto paper with a printing press. In recent works, Norfleet succumbed to the allure of pigment on a transparent surface and began experimenting with space by using multiple Lucite panels, working on both sides to create up to four surfaces on which she could layer paintings, drawings, cut paper collages, and photographs.

Gail Norfleet has incorporated modern digital techniques to create her collage elements. However, as a classicist, she still mixes her own paint colors and draws all of her subjects from life.

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