Gail Roberts
Biography

Roberts’ work has been exhibited nationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA;  Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA; Riverside Art Museum; Oxnard Art Museum; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin;  and internationally at the Musee Rochefort-en-terre, Brittany,France; Museo Nacional, San Jose, Costa Rica; Kinemacolor Building, Victoria, Canada,; and represented in galleries in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe.  Roberts’ work is included in permanent collections at the Oakland Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art, Lux Art Institute as well as numerous corporate and private collections. Her work has been critically reviewed in publications including Art in America, New Art Examiner, Modern Painters and she has received numerous awards including a California Arts Council Fellowship, Alfred and Trafford Klotts Fellowship Residency in France, and Julia and David White Fellowship Residency in Costa Rica. In 2001 she was commissioned by the Port of San Diego to complete a 13' x 25' multi-paneled painting entitled Tree Lines located at the San Diego International Airport.
 
Art critic Robert Pincus writes, “She is exhorting us to see nature as a luminous mirror of our ceaseless obsession with mortality.  Seeing nature wax and wane around her, she has become acutely aware of the fragility of life. Landscapes are radiant texts, if you take the time to learn how to read them. The notion is Emersonian or, if we look to the parallel in 19th-century American painting, Luminist. Roberts has become a vital artist in this tradition".

Gail Roberts received her BFA and MA at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and is currently a Professor of Art at San Diego State University.