HARRIS HARVEY GALLERY, 2024
Solo Exhibition
GAGE ACADEMY OF ART, 2022
CALENDAR
HARRIS HARVEY GALLERY, 2021
SOLO EXHIBITION
ART STUDENTS LEAGUE of NY | LINEA, December 2019
ARTIST INTERVIEW
MONTLAKE TERRACE NEWS, 2019
EDMONDS ARTS FESTIVAL | JUROR + POSTER ARTIST
ROSANNE OLSON PHOTOGRAPHY, April 2019
GAGE CO-FOUNDER PORTRAITS
KITSAP SUN, August 2018
COLLECTIVE VISIONS ART GALLERY | 2019 JUROR
BONFIRE GALLERY, October - December 2017
SOLO EXHIBITION
CITYARTS, December 2016
TABLE of CONTENTS | ILLUSTRATION
SPREADING
The images of Gary Faigin's most recent series, Concentrated, meld the classic stylings of still life painting with contemporary components, including twists on traditional subjects like fruit (portrayed as exploded, bursting, crushed) and vases and vessels smashed to bits. In them, objects of everyday use and ritual are pitted against the psychological aspects attributed to them, whether consciously or not.
"In these paintings, the foreground objects have arranged themselves into complicated and symmetrical domestic totems," Faigin says, "a sort of shrine to home comforts--with purposeful contradictions in space. How can so many things be in the same place at the same time?"
Faigin's "Spreading" is on view at V2 Arts Center as part of American Painting Today through Dec. 18.
DRAWING, Summer 2016
COVER + ARTICLE
PORT TOWNSEND JEFFERSON COUNTY LEADER
PORT LUDLOW ARTIST'S LEAGUE PRESENTATION
ART ACADEMY, 2014, 2005 + 2000
CATALOG COVERS
GAGE ACADEMY OF ART, Fall 2014
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR LETTER
TEMPLE BETH AM, October 2012
16' MURAL
SEATTLE TIMES, December 2012
GAGE ACADEMY OF ART | DRAWING JAM
PORT TOWNSEND JEFFERSON COUNTY LEADER, August 2011
13th Annual Art Port Townsend | Juror
LINDA HODGES GALLERY, October 2010
SOLO EXHIBITION
SEATTLE METROPOLITAN, April 2010
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
TACOMA ART MUSEUM, 2009
NEDDY ARTIST FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION
GARY FAIGIN
Gary Faigin studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the Art Students League of New York, and the Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts in Paris. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum and Woodside/Braseth Gallery in Seattle and the Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay, Oregon, as well as group shows at galleries in Santa Fe, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and New York. His work has been included in a number of survey and instructional books and has been highlighted in newspaper and journal articles. His works are in the collections of the City of New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, as well as several corporate collections, including Boeing Corporation, Immunex, and Merrill Lynch. Faigin is the co-founder, Artistic Director, and a senior instructor at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle. He is also an art critic for KUOW.
TEMPE CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 2009
FACES | GROUP EXHIBITION
100 SANTA FE ETCHERS, 2008
THE SANTA FE PRINTMAKERS SERIES
GUIDE TO JEWISH WASHINGTON, 2005-6
COVER ARTWORK
ANACORTES ARTS FESTIVAL, August 2005
ART AT THE PORT | FEATURED ARTIST
JENKINS JOHNSON GALLERY, 2003
FIFTH ANNUAL INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION
SOUTHWEST ART, December 2002
CONTEMPORARY REALISM, COVER ARTICLE
SOUTHWEST ART, March 2001
THE STILL LIFE | COVER ARTICLE
FRYE MUSEUM OF ART, August 2001
RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION
TRADITION & CONTRADICTION
Gary Faigin's imagery is derived from conventions of traditional still lifes and mass media billboards that, at first glance, seem easily accessible. Upon further contemplation, however, more complex possibilities arise: things quietly fly apart or explode, scale expands in significance, pictures become incorporated into other pictures, signage translates into riddles, and the boundaries between nature and artifice are called into question.
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN OIL PAINTING, 1999
JULIN FINE ARTS PUBLISHING HOUSE, CHINA
AMERICAN ARTIST, June 1996
REAL & IMAGINARY STILL LIFES
ARTIST MAGAZINE, 1995 + 1993
MATERIALS and METHODS ARTICLES
MANOMET BIRD OBSERVATORY, 1982
PLYMOUTH BEACH BOOK | ILLUSTRATOR
