Susan Gale's work
explores the nostalgia of community by highlighting the peaceful, quiet mystery
of light and juxtaposing its nuance against the rush of visually invoked
sensation. She evokes the senses by exploring images with manipulation of form,
surface, and palette. With this intention, she exaggerates each painting's
elements of color, framing, and texture and employs rich hues and playful pointillism.
Gale’s work investigates the space between abstraction and representation and
allows for a rich direct language of mark-making.
Gale's unique
aesthetic reflects the dominant theme of her work: emotion. In her practice, Gale
captures cityscapes and images of everyday places, then assigns them a
subjective graphic meaning. In this form of expression, gestures, and shapes
start to invoke the feeling of being transported to these places. Gale
continues to work the images through a lens of emotion as they bring beauty and
form back to their most simple compositional elements.
Gale was born in Stephenville, Newfoundland in 1977, she
studied painting at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design from 2000 to 2004 and
received her BFA. Gale moved to Toronto in 2005 where she has been painting, exhibiting,
and selling her work consistently since graduating from NSCAD.
Gale’s work has appeared in several home design TV shows,
including Property Brothers. Her artwork has been collected throughout Canada
and the US.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition Mayor’s Purchase Award, Toronto, ON
2022 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, ON
2022 Market Gallery Toronto Exhibit of Mayor’s Purchase Award Winners, Toronto, ON
2021 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, ON
2019 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Bloom Gallery, Montreal QUE (with Carol Malcolm)
2015 Exhibitor Toronto Outdoor Art Show, Toronto, ON
2014 Exhibitor Toronto Outdoor Art Show, Toronto, ON
2013 Exhibitor Toronto Outdoor Art Show, Toronto, ON
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Solo Exhibition, “Awake In A Dream”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Solo Exhibition, Paula White Diamond Gallery, Waterloo, ON
2019 Solo Exhibition, Koyman Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2018 Solo Exhibition, “Connection”, Cayman Gallery, Ottawa
2014 Solo Exhibition, “Perspective” Paula White-Diamond Gallery, Waterloo ON
ART
FAIRS
2020 Affordable
Art Fair New York, NY
2017
Exhibitor
Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Toronto ON
AWARDS
2016 Mayor’s Purchase Award
Toronto Outdoor Art show Toronto, ON
TV & FILM
House and Home
Income Property
Property Brothers
