Gina Medcalf, Abstract Contemporary British Painting Gina Medcalf Color Field Kinetic Op Art

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Gina Medcalf (British, 1941-)
"Shallow Ground 2", 2008
(Shallow Brown)
Acrylic on canvas
Hand signed, dated and titled reverse.
27 … Read more Gina Medcalf (British, 1941-)
"Shallow Ground 2", 2008
(Shallow Brown)
Acrylic on canvas
Hand signed, dated and titled reverse.
27 X 18
this painting is not framed
Polychrome abstract featuring undulating vertical lines in an ombre color rainbow palette

Gina Medcalf, born in North Wales, lives and works in London. She graduated from the Central School of Art and Design in 1969. From 1973 to 1986 she lived, worked and exhibited in the USA (New York), working mainly on photography (receiving a National Endowment For the Arts award). She was a Senior Lecturer at Kingston University from 1994 to 2006 and Associate Lecturer in Fine Art at UAL, Chelsea College of Art and Design until 2013. Gina Medcalf is married to the sculptor Charles Hewlings. they live and work together in South London. Hewlings, who trained at Newcastle and St Martins, emerged as a leading sculptor in the late 1970s, has taught at Wimbledon and the RCA and spent two years in Duisberg on a Lehmbruck scholarship. Her paintings have been exhibited at John Moores’ and in Flowers’ Survey of British Abstract Painting. Both artists share a thoughtful commitment to abstraction and spoke about drawing in relation to that tradition. This bears stylistic similarities to Stanley William Hayter and Don Christensen It has a kinetic, Op art quality to it. She received Jackson Pollock- Lee Krasner Foundation Awards in 2008 and 2017 and an Abbey Fellowship in Painting at the British School at Rome 2015. and in 1984 New York State Council for the Arts Research Grant, International Centre of Photography, New York. 1983 National Endowment for the Arts Research Grant, International Centre of Photography, New York. 1969 Italian Government Research Scholarship, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples. UK woman artist.

Select Exhibitions

Young Contemporaries 1969
Serpentine Pavilion: Daniel Dahl, Michael Ginsborg, Richard James, Barry King, Gina Medcalf, Julian Hawkes
Abstract Painting and Sculpture (Gina Medcalf and Charles Hewlings) at Stockwell Depot, London 1986
John Moore’s 16 1989
Smith Jariwala Gallery 1990. 1991
Benjamin Rhodes Gallery 1994
University of the Arts London, Chelsea College of Art and Design Gallery, 1999
British Abstract Painting, Flowers East 2001
Kapil Jariwala Gallery 2018.
Oplontis Room 66, Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London
Underground, Chelsea Futurespace, London. Catalogue
The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth, Suffolk. Catalogue
Sound Shore Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut See less