Gail Rieke Black Laquer Box, 2001 mixed media assemblage 10" x 14" x 8"
This is an assemblage piece that is contained within a Japanese Meiji-era black lacquer box.
Gail Rieke, is a nationally recognized collage/ assemblage artist, she shows her work at her home studio/gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She also exhibits by invitation in museums, art centers and galleries.
Gail received her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from University of Florida at Gainesville. Gail has been the recipient of several awards: among them the Western States Art Federation Grant in 1977.
Gail has taught at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida; the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and the College of Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She also travels nationally and internationally to lecture and teach classes and workshops. Recent venues include the San Francisco Center for the Book, Vero Beach Center for the Arts in Florida , Segal Studio in Montreal, and a traveling workshop in rural Japan.
In the year 2000, Gail and her husband, Zachariah had a retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, NM. The show was entitled Gail & Zachariah Rieke: Found Objects In An Open World.
"Gail Rieke orchestrates some of the most sensitive collage works being done today. Their uniqueness has to do with the exquisite internal harmonies she discovers among these natural and man-made materials, and the way she balances the very specific nature of each piece with its potential for poetic meaning..." William Peterson, editor of Artspace Magazine.