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Artists : Gail Newman Class of 2008

Gail Newman was born in Queens, New York and started sketching at an early age, but was discouraged by her 6th grade art teacher who commented to Gail that, "You may draw better than the others, but I'm giving you a 'C' because you don't do enough work!" Her passion for her art resurfaced and after coming to Cleveland in 1968, her husband encouraged her to take her art seriously and she did so by enrolling into the Cleveland Institute of Art. After off and on studying, she was inspired by the work and instruction of John Pearson, a painter and mentor to Gail, but also Carl Floyd who introduced negative space and the use of power tools. She says that although she started out as a painter she was always meant to be a woodworker; she was "waiting like sleeping beauty, to be awakened to the possibilities of a powerful band saw, and in a sculpture class at the Cleveland Institute of Art this alchemy occurred." While at the Cleveland Institute of Art, she attracted the attention of Roger Welchans, who helped Newman get her first show at John Carroll University. Throughout her life her work has been exhibited in a variety of places around Ohio, Illinois, Maryland, and New York. Most recently her work was exhibited in Oberlin in an exhibition entitled, "Drawings." Collections of her work are kept all over the United States. Newspapers, vacations, street scenes, and her own life experiences have inspired Newman's artwork, which include but not limited to layered reliefs, small sculptures, and paintings.

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