« The forms drawn by Gail Singer, their visible abstraction, are inseparable of a tempestuous, stormy climate, . . ., » writes André Pieyre de Mandiargues. Gail Singer, painter and printmaker, was born in Galveston, Texas in 1924. She studied fine arts at Washington University in Saint Louis where she was awarded the John T. Miliken Fellowship that allowed her to travel and study in Europe in 1952. Singer settled in Paris in 1955, working at

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  Biography of Gail Singer

  « The forms drawn by Gail Singer, their visible abstraction, are inseparable of a tempestuous, stormy climate, . . ., » writes André Pieyre de Mandiargues. Gail Singer, painter and printmaker, was born in Galveston, Texas in 1924. She studied fine arts at Washington University in Saint Louis where she was awarded the John T. Miliken Fellowship that allowed her to travel and study in Europe in 1952. Singer settled in Paris in 1955, working at Atelier 17 under Paul Buelin and Stanley William Hayter until the close of the 1960s, and remained in Paris for the rest of her life. Singer worked in the intaglio process creatively combining the techniques of etching, aquatint, open bite, and viscosity. She also worked in relief, printing the surface of her matrix be it a metal plate, wood, or linoleum. She participated in group exhibitions at the St. Louis Art Museum, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts and, in Paris, at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. Her work was also included in the 1962 Atelier 17 exhibition that was mounted in London at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The poster for the exhibition was a collaborative effort of Singer, Hayter, and Dadi Wirz. Singer also had solo exhibitions in Paris at the Galerie Le Soleil and at the Galerie Rive Gauche in 1962. Her work is represented in the collections of the Kemper Art Museum and the Washington University Collections in Saint Louis. « In front of Gail Singer's works, I feel that each is an event, an event which is significant for me, » writes Hayter, or still: « I admire the art of Gail Singer for  its truth, its strength, and its prodigious visual power ». The artist died in Paris in 1985.
  

  

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