Gail Potocki
American (1961-)
EDUCATION:
School of Representational Art; Chicago, IL
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2017 The Century Guild Museum of Art; Culver City, CA, The Seven Deadly Sins
2017 Galerie Fledermaus; Chicago, IL, The Seven Deadly Sins
2015 The Century Guild Museum of Art; Culver City, CA, Freaks
2013 The Century Guild Museum of Art; Culver City, CA, Fragmented Alice
2012 Century Guild Gallery; Chicago, IL, Retrospective 2000-2012
2008 Billy Shire Fine Arts; Culver City, CA, Opened Apples
SELECTED GROUP MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS:
2017 Art Gallery of Ontario; Ontario, Canada, Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters
2017 Minneapolis Museum of Art; Minneapolis, MN, Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters
2016 Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles, CA, Gullermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters
2014 Century Guild Museum of Art; Culver City, CA, Love and Other Violations
2012 Muskegon Museum of Art; Muskegon, MI, 84th Regional Exhibition Group Show
2012 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; Kalamazoo, MI, West Michigan Area Show
2012 Anton Art Center; Mt. Clemens, MI, Michigan Annual XXXVIII
2012 South Haven Center for the Arts; South Haven, MI, Centered States: Works of the Chicago Art Salon
2011 Anton Art Center; Mt. Clemens, MI,Michigan Annual XXXVII
2011 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; Kalamazoo, MI, West Michigan Area Show
2011 Highland Park Art Center; Highland Park, IL, Compilation
2011 South Shore Arts; Munster, IN, Reassembled: Mike Chelich and the Chicago Art Salon
2010 Anton Art Center; Mt. Clemens, MI, Figure/Ground
2010 Brickton Art Center; Park Ridge, IL, Sevres: Beyond Blue
2010 South Haven Center for the Arts; South Haven, MI, Regional Exhibition
2009 South Haven Center for the Arts; South Haven, MI, First Annual Regional Exhibition
2008 Laguna Art Museum; Laguna Beach, CA, In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor
2006 Reflex Arts Micro Museum; Brooklyn, NY, Circus Surreal
2006 H. R. Giger Museum; Chateau St. Germain, Gruyeres, Switzerland, Flights of Imagination
2003 Williamsburg Art and Historical Center; Brooklyn, NY, Brave Destiny (Group Surrealist Show)
2002 Three Arts Club; Chicago, IL, Tradition and Innovation (Two-person show)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2016 LA ART; Galerie Fledermaus; Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Baton Rouge Gallery; Baton Rouge, LA, Surreal Salon 8
2015 Copro Nason Gallery; Santa Monica, CA, Roadside Attractions
2015 Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery; Cincinnati, OH Cinema 06
2015 The Dirty Show; Detroit, MI
2014 Art Prize; Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI.
2014 La Luz de Jesus Gallery; Los Angeles, CA, Temple of Art
2014 La Luz de Jesus Gallery; Los Angeles, CA, Laluzapalooza
2014 LA ART; Century Guild Gallery; Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Century Guild Gallery; Culver City, CA, Love and Other Violations II
2013 Century Guild Gallery; Culver City, CA, Grand Guignol III: Thanatos
2013 Century Guild Gallery; Chicago, IL, Grand Guignol Exhibition (Chicago)
2013 La Luz de Jesus Gallery; Los Angeles, CA, Laluzapalooza
2013 La Luz de Jesus Gallery; Los Angeles, CA, LA Beerweek: Beer is Art
2012 La Luz de Jesus Gallery; Los Angeles CA, Macabre
2012 La Luz de Jesus Gallery; Los Angeles, CA, Laluzapalooza
2012 Exhibit A Gallery; Los Angeles, CA, Obey Your Master: Tribute to Metallica
2012 Cella Gallery; North Hollywood, CA, Femme Fatale
2011 La Luz de Jesus Gallery; Los Angeles, CA, La Luz de Jesus 25
2011 Century Guild Gallery; Chicago, IL, Grand Guignol II: Haxan
2011 Century Guild Gallery; Chicago, IL, Nitrate + Kinogeists II
2011 Mondo Bizarro Gallery; Rome, Italy, The New Lost Generation: Return to Order in Contemporary Art
2011 Century Guild Gallery; Chicago, IL, Love and Other Violations
2010 Century Guild Gallery; Chicago, IL, Grand Guignol
2010 Robert Lange Studios; Charleston, SC, Women Painting Women
2010 John Almquist Gallery; Winnetka, IL Shared Visions
2010 Grand Central Art Center; Santa Ana, CA, 100 Artists See Satan Again
2010 Primitive Gallery; Chicago, IL, Improbability
2010 Roq La Rue Gallery; Seattle, WA, Lush Life
2009 Billy Shire Fine Arts; Culver City, CA, David Anderle, Charlie Immer, Elizabeth McGrath, Gail Potocki
2009 Kunsttiendaagse Art Show; Bergen, Netherlands, The Chicago Salon
2008 Art Chicago; Jason Jacques Gallery; Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL,
2007 Roq La Rue Gallery; Seattle, WA, Venus
2007 Palm Beach 3 Art Fair; Ann Nathan Gallery; Palm Beach, FL
2006 WonderCon; Century Guild; San Francisco, CA, Art Nouveau and Symbolism
2006 School of Representational Art; Chicago, IL, 15 Year Anniversary Student and Alumni Show
2005 Judy Saslow Gallery; Chicago, IL, Cephalic Symbols (tribute to artist Ed Paschke)
2005 InterArt Gallery; Chelsea, NY, The Inner Eye (Society for Art of Imagination Group Show)
2004 4Art Gallery; Chicago, IL, Group Show
2003 Galleri Art; Kirkcudbright, Scotland, The Society of Art and Imagination
2003 Chicago Design Show; Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
2002 International Juried Symbolist Art Show; online, Curated by Susanne Iles
2001 Building 317; Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
2001 Indiana University; South Bend, IN, Representational Art Group Show
2000 School of Representational Art; Chicago, IL, Student and Alumni Show
2000-2018 Century Guild Gallery; Culver City, CA
2013-2018 Galerie Fledermaus; Chicago, IL
2004-2016 Ann Nathan Gallery; Chicago, IL
2010-2014 Comic Con International; Century Guild Gallery, San Diego, CA
SELECTED AWARDS:
2012 First Prize; Michigan Annual XXXVIII, Anton Art Center, Mt. Clemens, MI
2011 Grand Prize; 2011 West Michigan Area Show, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
2011 Martin Maddox Award for Imaginary Realism; 2011 West Michigan Area Show, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
2010 Grand Prize; Juried Regional Art Exhibition, South Haven Center For The Arts, South Haven, MI
2006 Curators Choice Award; Circus Surreal, Micro Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2003 First Prize (Transcendental Section), Baron of Fulwood Award; Society for Art and Imagination, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
2003 Choix des Juges Award; Brave Destiny, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Ward Rogers Distinguished Artist Award; The Society for Art of the Imagination
2002 First Prize; International Juried Online Symbolist Art Exhibition
MONOGRAPHS
Gail Potocki: Freaks; 30-page hardcover, Century Guild, 2017
Gail Potocki: The Union of Hope and Sadness; 208-page hardcover, Olympian Publishing, 2006
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (print)
2015 Zymbol Magazine, issue #5; “Gail Potocki: Freaks and Nature.” Interview and pictorial (photo cover),
2014 Spectrum 21: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art; John Fleskes, ed., Flesk Publications
2012 Grand-Guignol II: Haxan; by Thomas Negovan, Century Guild
2011 La Luz de Jesus 25: The Little Gallery That Could; by Billy Shire, La Luz de Jesus Press.
2011 Nitrate + Kinogeists 2; by Thomas Negovan, Century Guild
2011 Love and Other Violations; by Thomas Negovan, Century Guild
2010 Grand-Guignol: A Tribute to the Legendary Theater of Terror; by Thomas Negovan, Century Guild
2009 In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor; by Meg Linton, Ginko Press, Inc.
2006 Juxtapoz Magazine, issue #63; “Gail Potocki's Wordless Wisdom” Interview by Marisa Solis
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (online)
2012 Altpress; “Exclusive Interview: Metallica's Kirk Hammett at the ‘Obey Your Master’ art opening” (January 27)
2011 Mother Jones;“The Environmental Art of Gail Potocki”by Julia Whitty (August 24)
2011 The Huffington Post; “Gail Potocki's Paintings Reflect Mankind's Relationship to Nature” (March 5)
2008 Boing Boing; “Gail Potocki painting show in Los Angeles” by David Pescovitz (November 14)