Denise Gale
Denise Gale was born and raised in St.Louis, Mo. In 1967 she moved to Los Angeles and attended Valley Community College and then California State College Northridge, where she studied with Fidel Danieli and Peter Plagens. After graduating she moved into a loft in downtown Pasadena, where she became part of a tight knit art community. She had her first show at age 26.
Gale has exhibited widely across the country. Solo shows include Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY; The Painting Center and the Mercer Gallery, New York, NY; the Janus Gallery, Newspace Gallery and the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. She has exhibited in group shows at the Penine Hart Gallery and Mokotoff Gallery, New York, NY; Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA: the Carol Shapiro Gallery, St. Louis, MO, Sarah Nightingale and Julie Keyes, Sag Harbor, NY, among others.
“I have been an artist my entire life. After so many years, I am still in love with painting. It beguiles me. I am intrigued with a blank canvas and fascinated with paint. Moving paint around to make a language…this is the most important part of my painting; the rest is all about color, perspective, size, and composition. I have been schooled with the formal elements and sometimes they work successfully and sometimes they do not. The essence of my paintings I really cannot define. It is almost like meditation because the world can drop away and I can invent my own.” — DG
“Eclipse Fish”, acrylic on found plastic object, 2024
“Dendrotekton I”, oil and gesso on pine bark, 2025
“Prismatic Skies”, acrylic on reclaimed sailcloth
“Prismatic Skies”, acrylic on reclaimed sail cloth, 48” x 64”, 2023
“Winter Storm”, acrylic on found fiberglass boat hull fragment, 51” x 32” x 9”, 2024
“Eclipse II”, mono print with watercolor, 14” x 11”, 2024
“Spotted Lantern Fly”, watercolor on paper, 10” x 14”, 2025
“Northwest Swell”, watercolor on paper, 7.5” x 9”, 2025
“Sagg Main Haze”, watercolor on paper, 7.5” x 9”, 2024
“Auroral Ocean", ballpoint pen on paper, 12” x 9”, 2024