Gael Stack
b. 1941



1941
Born in Chicago, Illinois
Resides in Houston, TX
Education
1972
M.F.A., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
1970
B.F.A., University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
Teaching Experience
1999-present
John & Rebecca Moores Professor, Department of Art, University of Houston, Houston, TX
1985-1999
Professor, Department of Art, University of Houston, Houston, TX
1980-1985
Associate Professor, Department of Art, University of Houston, Houston, TX
1973-1979
Assistant Professor, Department of Art, University of Houston, Houston, TX
1991
Yale Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk, Connecticut
1990-1991
Visiting Professor of Painting, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1986
UH London Program, London, England
1982
Visiting Professor, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
1972-1973
Instructor, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, Wisconsin
Grants and Awards
1999
John and Rebecca Moores University Scholar, The University of Houston, Houston, TX
1997
Texas Artist of the Year, Art League of Houston
1989
National Endowment for the Arts Artists Grant
1986
Tiffany Foundation Grant
1985
Cultural Arts Council of Houston Award for Visual Arts
1982
National Endowment for the Arts Artists Grant
Solo Exhibitions
2005
Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
2003
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
2002
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
2000
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
1998
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois
I-Space, Chicago, Illinois
1997
“Ballerina Nudista and Other Tales”, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, New York
“Texas Artist of the Year”, Art League of Houston, Houston, TX
1996
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
Musé e de Niort, Niort, France
1995
Musé e de L’Echevinage, Saintes, France
Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, New York
1994
“New Paintings”, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX         
1993
Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, New York
1992
"Gael Stack:  Revealing Clues", Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX
"Recent Work", Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
1990
"Recent Paintings", Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
"Paintings and Works on Paper", University of Arkansas, Little Rock, in conjunction with the Southeastern College Art Conference Annual Meeting
1989
"Paintings on Paper and Working Drawings", Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
"Gael Stack:  A Survey 1974 - 1989", Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX (catalogue) traveled to Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
1988
Beitzel Fine Arts, New York, New York
1987
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
1985
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
Brown-Lupton Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
Hadler-Rodriguez Galleries, New York, New York
1983
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
1981
Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
1980
Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
1979
Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
1978
Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
1977
Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
Art Museum of South TX, Corpus Christi, TX
1976
Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
1975
Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
1974
Graphics Gallery, San Francisco, California
1972
Mitchell Gallery, Carbondale, Illinois
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005
Inaugural Exhibition, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
2004
“Perspectives @ 25:  A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX 
“Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection”, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
2003
“Contexture”, Travis Tower, Houston, TX
“Beyond the Academy: Encouraging New Talent from Texas”, Arthouse, Austin, TX (travelling)
“Selections from the Texas Artists of the Year,” JPMorgan Chase Building, Houston, TX (organized by the Art League of Houston)
2002
“Art on the Avenue”, Winter Street Artspace, Houston, TX (auction)
2001
“Artists Collect Art”, The Nancy Wilson Scanlan Gallery, Helm Fine Arts Center, St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, Austin, TX
“The Boston Drawing Project”, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
“Our Crowd Collects”, Margolis Gallery, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, TX
2000
“On The Edge: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection”, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
“Crossing State Lines: Texas Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
“25 Years”, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
“Contemporary TX Artists”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1999
“Summer Collection Show”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
“TX Draws”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalogue)
“Recent Acquisitions”, The Museum of TX Tech University, Lubbock, TX
1998
“Works on Paper”, Musé e de L’Echevinage, Saintes, France (curated by Gael Stack)
“Works on Paper”, Mulcahy Modern Gallery, Dallas, TX
1997
“Exciting New Art From TX”, Gallery of World Affairs, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
“Finders/Keepers”, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalogue)
“Establishment and Revelations, Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, TX (catalogue)
“Classically Inspired”, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
1996
“Art and Art Adventures”, Galveston Arts Center Auction, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
“Three Visions”, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina (3 person), traveling to the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Corrientes, Argentina (catalogue)
“1996 Houston Women’s Festival”, Houston, TX (slide presentation)
“Texas Modern and Post-Modern”, (selections from the permanent collection),Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1995
“The State of the State:  Contemporary Art in Texas” (from the permanent collection), San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
“Drawing from Strength”, Transco Tower Gallery, Houston, TX
1994
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, New York
“Collectors Choice:  Living with Art”, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
“Review/Preview”, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
“Landscape without Figures”, curated by David Brauer, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
“Judicious Choices”, selections from Houston corporate collections, chosen by Peter Doroshenko, Davis/McClain Gallery at Pennzoil Place, Houston, TX
“Stories”, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
1993
“Curator’s Choice”, Albright Knox Members Gallery, Buffalo, New York
“Lawndale Live:  A Retrospective 1979 - 1990”, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, TX
“Observations/Notations”, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
“Collaborations:  Artists + Printers”, exhibition organized by Tamarind Institute raveling internationally under the auspices of the United States Information Agency’s Arts America (catalogue)
“Fur, Fins, Feathers and More”, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
“Making Their Mark:  Drawings by 12 TX Artists”, Nations Bank, Houston, TX (Houston International Festival)
“Anxious Art”, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
“Darkness and Light”, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX (catalogue)
“Recent Acquisitions”, Yale University Art Gallery,New Haven, Connecticut
1992
“Selections from the Permanent Collection”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
“From Chaos to Order”, Art Museum of Southeast TX, Beaumont, TX
"Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", Lanning Gallery, Houston, TX
"TX Art Celebration '92", Assistance League, Cullen Center, Houston, TX
1991
"The State I'm In: TX Artists at the DMA", Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
"Faculty Exhibition", Yale Summer School of Music & Art, Norfolk, Connecticut
"On Line:  Drawings by TX Artists", Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX
"A Sense of Place:  Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary TX Art", San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
1990
"Northwest X Southwest:  Painted Fictions", Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California (catalogue) tour:  Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana;
Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
"Tradition and Innovation:  A Museum Celebration of TX Art", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
USIA Arts America Exhibition
"Women View Women", RGK Foundation Gallery, Austin, TX
"New Faculty", Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
"Alternative Situations for Contemporary Printmaking", The Print Club,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Direct References:  Drawings by TX Artists", Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
"15 Year Anniversary Exhibition", Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
"TX Figurative Drawings", Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
1989
"The Private Eye", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
"The Artist's Eye:  Fourteen Collections", Diverse Works, Houston, TX
"Group Exhibition", Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
"Works on Paper", Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
"Monotypes", Moody Gallery, Houston, TX (four person exhibition)
"Art Faculty Exhibition", University of Houston, Houston, TX
"Now/Then/Again", Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
"Diamonds Are Forever", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
"Messages", Frito-Lay, Inc., Plano, TX
1988
"Art for the Museum:  A Legacy", Art Museum of Southeast TX, Beaumont, TX
"TX Artists", Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
"Twentieth-Century Art in the Museum Collection:  Direction and Diversity", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
"Patricia Gonzalez, Allan Smith, Gael Stack:  Recent Paintings", Southwest TX State University Gallery, San Marcos, TX
"TX Art:  An Exhibition Selected from The Menil Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Trustees' Collections of the Contemporary Arts Museum", Richmond Hall, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (catalogue)
"Houston '88", Cullen Center, Houston, TX
"Master Drawings (1977 - 1987) from Cezanne to Johns", Janie C. Lee Master  Drawings, New York, New York (catalogue)
"Selected TX Women Art Faculty", College of the Mainland, TX City, TX
1987
"Emerging Artists 1978 - 1986:  Selections from the Exxon Series", Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York (catalogue)
Group Exhibition, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, New York
"Third Coast Review:  A Look at Art in TX", Aspen Art Museum, Aspen,
Colorado (catalogue)
"At Conception: Small Drawings for Big Ideas", University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
Group Exhibition, Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
1986
"Amnesty International Exhibition", Diverse Works, Houston, TX
Group Exhibition, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
"Houston Drawing", Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
"Forum", Edward Totah Gallery, Zurich,Switzerland
"Cinq x Cinq",Stedman/Hubbard Gallery, Paris, France (catalogue)
Group Exhibition, Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
"Paintings, Sculpture, Collages and Drawings", Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
"TX Time Machine", 1600 Smith, Houston, TX; Sheraton Gallery, Dallas, TX
1985
"TX Currents", San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX (catalogue)
"Gallery Artists", Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
"Group Exhibition", Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
"Fresh Paint: The Houston School", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; P.S.1, Long Island City, New York (catalogue)
"Works on Paper", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (catalogue)
1984
"Word Images", San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
"Works on Paper", Hadler-Rodriguez Galleries, New York, New York
"Four TX Painters", Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
1983
"Southern Fictions", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalogue)
"New Orleans Triennial", New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (catalogue)
1982
"New Art from A New City", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Vienna (catalogue)
"New Accessions:  TX Artists", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
"Four Painters",  Simone Stern Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
"Americans on Paper", Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
"Art from Houston in Norway", Stavanger Museum, National Gallery, Oslo (catalogue)
"Texas on Paper", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalogue/tour)
1981
"Women and Their Work", Gihon Foundation (traveled/film documentation)
"Four Painters", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalogue)
"19 Artists-Emergent Americans:  1981", Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York (catalogue)
1980
"Houston Area Show", Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX (catalogue)
"TX Invitational", Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
1978
"Fire Show", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
"Works on Paper", Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
"Mythmakers & Storytellers", Patrick Gallery, Austin, TX  
"7 x 9", N.A.M.E. Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
1977
"Art: Women:  Houston", International Women's Year Exhibition, Houston, TX
"Houston Prints", Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
1976
"New Acquisitions:  Works on Paper", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
"Works on Paper", Tomilson Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1975
"Houston Area Show", Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston,TX
1974
"8th Annual National Drawing Show", Corpus Christi, TX
"16th Annual National Exhibition", Norman, Oklahoma
1973
"Ball State 19th Annual Drawing & Small Sculpture Show", Muncie, Indiana
1972
"15th Annual Art Unlimited", Downey  Museum of Art, Downey, California
Selected Related Professional Work
2003     
Nominator, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Lecture,”Gael Stack: Untitled”, Arthouse, Austin, TX
       
Lecture, “Beyond the Academy,”  Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
2001
Lecture, “Artist Spotlight: Gael Stack”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,Houston, TX
Nominator, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
2000
Lecture, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
1999
Lecture, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Panel, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
1998
Visiting Artist, Critic, University of Illinois, Champaigne, Illinois
Lecture, Krannert Art Museum, Champaigne, Illinois
Nominator, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Panelist, “Women’s Identities”, South Central Women’s Studies Association, UHCL
Speaker, Power Lunch Series, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Juror, Grants Panel, Cultural Arts Council of Houston, Houston, TX
Juror, the Glassell School of Art Annual Exhibition, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Listed, Printworld Directory of Contemporary Prints
1997
Nominator, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
1996
Lecture, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Workshop and Lecture, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenas Aires, Argentina
Lecture, The Seconday Schools of Saintes, France
Juror, Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment of the Arts
Participant, “Definitions of Houston Art”, roundtable discussion, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Reviewer, Tenure Recommendation, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Reviewer, Tenure Recommendation, University of TX, Austin, TX
1995
Lecture, Auditorium Salle Saintonge, France
Lecture, Conference, Salle des Jaconins, France
Nominator, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Invited to participate in Academy Purchase Program, American Academy of Arts and Letter, New York, New York
Critic, the Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Featured Artist, Oakland Museum of Art Guild Tour, Houston, TX
1994
Collectors Circle, Contemporary Arts Museum Studio Visit
1993
Lecture, Covenant Church, Houston, TX
Critic, IE Magazine
1992
Lecture, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX
Lecture, “Starting from Sleep”, UH Inventive Minds Speaker Series
Panelist, Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Painting and Works on Paper Fellowship Awards, Atlanta, Georgia
Panelist, “Creativity”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Juror, NEA Regional Fellowship Panel, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Juror, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State, Johnson City, Tennessee
1991
Visiting Artist, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
1990
Guest Critic, College of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Lecture, Gulf Coast Intercollegiate Conference, Houston, TX
Symposium, Palm Spring Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
Participant, Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations, Rice University, Houston, TX
Film Documentary, “The Renaissance Collection”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Host, MediaFest, International Press, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Panelist, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Juror, Art League of Houston, Houston, TX
Visiting Artist, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
Visiting Artist and Panelist, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Visiting Artist, Columbia University, New York, New York
1989
Visiting Artist, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
Visiting Artist, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Lecture, Southeastern College Art Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas
Lecture, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Lecture, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Lecture, Art Museum of Southeast TX, Houston, TX
Panelist, “Parenthood and the Creative Process”, Houston Women’s Caucus for Art
Panelist, Contemporary Arts Museum (dialogue with Ross Blecker), Houston, TX
Panelist, Nave Museum, Victoria, TX
Juror, National Endowment for the Arts Awards, Works on Paper
Juror, Houston Community College Art Exhibit, Houston, TX
Juror, Galveston Art League, Galveston, TX
1988
Juror, “Synergy”, Houston, TX
Juror, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Visiting Artist, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
Visiting Artist, University of Illinois, Carbondale, Illinois
Visiting Artist, College of the Mainland, TX City, TX
Visiting Artist, the Glassell School of Art, The Museum of FIne Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Visiting Artist, Tamarind Institute, New Mexico
Panelist, “Living in TX: Working in the Mainstream”, College Arts Association National Conference
Lecture, Uffizi Exhibit, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Lecture, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, “The Artist’s Tour”, Houston, TX
Lecture, Kimbell Art Museum, “The Artist’s Eye”, Dallas, TX
Lecture, Art Museum of Southeast TX, Beaumont, TX
1987
Lecture, Juror, Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Missouri
Lecture, College of the Mainland, TX City, TX
Lecture, Sunday Evening Club, “The Artist and her Work”, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Artist Interview, “Greenroom”, KUHT
1986
Visiting Artist, Chelsea School of Art, London, England
Visiting Artist, Middlesex Polytechnic University, London, England
1985
Commissioner, Municipal Arts Commission, City of Houston,TX
Lecture, Cultural Arts Council of Houston, Houston, TX
Lecture, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Panelist, Evenings for Educators, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Panelist, Southern Graphic Council Conference, Rice University, Houston, TX
Visiting Artist, Arizona State University
Juror, National Hemophilia Foundation Art Show, New York, New York
1984
Lecture, “Works by Women”, Dallas, Public Library, Dallas, TX
Panelist, “Fresh Paint”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
1983
Visiting Artist, the Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Panelist, Creative Women Series, Women’s Center, Houston, TX
Juror, Illinois Arts Council Grant Program, Chicago, Illinois
Reviewer, Book Manuscript, Holt, Reinhold, and Winston, New York, New York
1982
Juror ,Student Exhibition, Southwest TX State University, San Marcos, TX
Lecture, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Slide Trust, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
1981
Visiting Artist, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
Juror, Student Exhibition, Southwest TX State University, San Marcos, TX
Featured Artist, Gihon Foundation’s, Works by Women, Film Documentary
Nominator, Western States Arts Foundation for “38th Corcoran Biennial/2nd Western States Exhibition”, Washington D.C.
1980
Juror, Art in Public Places, Cultural Arts Council of Houston, Houston, TX
Panelist, MidAmerica College of Art Association
Selected Public Collections
Beaux Art Museum, Saintes, France
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Museum of TX Tech University, Lubbock, TX
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois
American Airlines, Admirals Club Art Program, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
Schlumberger, Houston, TX
Veritas DGC, Houston, TX
Baker Botts L.L.P., Houston, TX
Selected Books
Perspectives @ 25:  A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 2004, catalogue to exhibition, pp. 98-99.
Nye, Naomi Shihab, Is This Forever, or What?  Poems & Paintings from TX, Greenwillow Books, New York, NY, 2004.
20th and 21st Century Art from the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of TX at Austin, Austin, TX, 2003.
Ivey, Bill. Princenthal, Nancy. Dowley, Jennifer.  A Creative Legacy: A History of the
National Endowment of the Arts, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.  (New York, NY).
Greene, Alison de Lima, TX: 150 Selections from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY, 2000.
Johnson, Patricia Covo, Contemporary Art in TX, Craftsman House, Australia, 1995.
McBride, Elizabeth, “Psychic Landscapes”,  No Bluebonnets, No Yellow Roses:
Essays on TX Women in the Arts, edited by Sylvia Moore, New York, Midmarch Press, 1988.
Carlozzi, Annette and Gay Block, 50 TX Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in TX, Chronicle Books, 1986.
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Albright, Thomas, "Unusual Art in San Francisco", San Francisco Chronicle, January 7, 1974.
Moser, Charlotte, "Art", Houston Chronicle, August 3, 1975.
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Crossley, Mimi, "Review", Houston Post, October 27, 1977.
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Schjeldahl, Peter, "Art and Money in the City of Future-Think", Houston City Magazine, Feb, 1980.
Schjeldahl, Peter, “Stock Options”, The Village Voice, February 18 - 24, 1981.
Larson, Kay, "The Great American Talent Hunt", New York Magazine, February 18 -24, 1981,
Rickey, Carrie, "The Guggenheim:  Singular Pluralism", Artforum, April 1981.
Gael Stack at the Guggenheim",  Houston Chronicle, TX Magazine, May 3, 1981.
Moser, Charlotte, "Artists the Critics Are Watching", ArtNews, May, 1981.
Glueck, Grace, "How Emerging Artists Really Emerge: Putting the Biennials Together",  ArtNews, May 1981.
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Kalil, Susie, "Houston Artists", ArtNews, December 1981.
Kalil, Susie, "Four Painters at the Contemporary Arts Museum", Art in America, April 1982.
Kalil, Susie, "Art:  Southern Fictions", Houston Post, August 7, 1983.
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Johnson, Patricia, "An Exhibit that draws attention", Houston Chronicle, October 18, 1990, p. 3E.
Mitchell, Charles Dee, "Being Human", Dallas Observer, June 7, 1990, p. 39.
Kutner, Janet, "Figuring it out in TX", Dallas Morning News, Thursday, June 14, 1990, Section C pp. 1 and 7.
Chadwick, Susan, Art, The Houston Post, Sunday, February 2, 1992, H-6.
Chadwick, Susan, "Stack:  Impressive, intelligent show reveals artist's a true colorist", The Houston Post, Thursday, February 13, 1992, C 1,3.
Kalil, Susie, "Striking a Balance", The Houston Press, February 20, 1992, pp. 33-34.
Johnson, Patricia C., "Flashes of Insight", Houston Chronicle, February 22, 1992, D 1,5.
Hamilton, Rebecca, “Stack at the Top”, Houston Post, March 8, 1992.
Chadwick, Susan, “2 Juried Shows”, Houston Post, March 8, 1992.
Methner, Ellen Rosenbush, “Deep in the Art of TX”, Museum and Arts, Aug. 1992, pp. 29 - 30.
---Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 1992, “Recent Acquisitions”, p. 117.
McConaugh, Claire, “Imagery of Syntax”, Cover Magazine, May 1993.  (review of exhibition at Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY)
Chadwick, Susan, “Galleries ante up with new shows”, The Houston Post, Jan. 23, 1994, H-16.
Johnson, Patricia C., “Paintings use abstraction as guide into the visual world”, Houston Chronicle, Saturday, January 29, 1994, Section C, pp. 1, 10.
Carrol, Don, “A Conversation with Gael Stack”, Art Lies, March1994. pp. 10-11.
Sherman, Mary, “Artists draw on the past for influence”, Boston Sunday Herald, Apr. 10, 1994, p. 77.
Stapen, Nancy, “Sensual landscapes and signs of nature”, The Boston Globe, April, 1994.
Karmel, Pepe, “Art in Review: Gael Stack at Condeso/Lawler Gallery”, New York Times, Friday, May 26, 1995, C-18.
Schjeldahl, Peter, “Gallery Legs”, The Village Voice, May 30, 1995.
-----Le Littoral, l decembre 1995. (Saintes, France)
-----Sud-Ouest, 6 decembre 1995. (Saintes, France)
-----Sud-Ouest, 7 decembre 1995. (Saintes, France)
-----Saintes, notre ville, decembre 1995. (Saintes, France)
-----Sud-Ouest, 23 decembre 1995. (Saintes, France)
-----Haute-Saintonge, 12 janvier 1996. (Saintes, France)
-----Charente-Maritime, 15 janvier 1996. (Saintes, France)                        
Ennis, Michael, “The Mod Squad”, TX Monthly, March, 1996, pp. 74-79.
-----Sud-Quest, 4 mai 1996. (Saintes, France)
-----Haute-Saintonge, 11 mai 1996. (Saintes, France)
Lebenglik, Fabian, “La visiones de un trio”, Plastica , Martes 11 de juio de 1996, p. 12.
Katzenstein, Ines, “Fotos, pinturas, y esculturas de Estados Unidos”, Artes & Espectaculos, Miercoles 12 de junio de 1996.
Shaw, Edward, “Innocents abroad: US artists in BA”, Buenos Aires Herald, Sunday, June 16, 1996, p. 8.
Johnson, Patricia, “Interesting use of materials highlights three exhibits”, Houston Chronicle, Wednesday, September 11, 1996, Sec. D, p. 3.
Loftus, Kelley, “Gael Stack at Moody Gallery”, Art Letter, September 15, 1996.
Johnson, Patricia, “League names top artist”, Houston Chronicle, Arts Notes, Feb. 2, 1997, p. 12.
Jenkins, Jeff, “UH’s Stack will be honored as TX Artist of the Year”, Houston Chronicle, This Weekend, Saturday, April 5, 1997, pp. 1, 4.
Lunde, Paige, “Established Values”, Artlies, Spring, 1997, pp. 26-27.
Southlynn, Jenny, “Critics’ picks and previews of the most interesting happenings around town”, The Octopus, Friday, February 6, 1998, p. 17.
-----Saintes, notre ville, Juin 1998. (Saintes, France)
-----Le Mois A Saintes, Juillet/Aout 1998, No. 116. (Saintes, France)
-----, Houston Chronicle, Sneak Preview, February 11, 1999, Sec. G, p. 16.
Johnson, Patricia, “TX artists quick on the ‘Draw’”, Houston Chronicle, Feb. 12, 1999, Sec. D, pp. 1, 16.
Halverson, Megan, ArtNews, National Reviews, April, 1999, p. 124.
Taylor, Mary Ross, ArtLies, Fall, 1999, No. 24, pp. 93 - 94.
Gerst, David, “If I Ran The Whitney...”, Canvas, Spring, 2000, Vol 3, No. 1, pp. 20-21, 23-24.
Colpitt, Frances, “Space City Takes Off”, Art In America, October 2000, pp. 66-75.
Anspon, Catherine, “25 Year Anniversary Exhibition”, ArtLies, Fall, 2000, No. 28,  pp. 102-103.
Johnson, Patricia, “Beyond borders”, Houston Chronicle, Art, Sunday, Sept 24, 2000, p. 11.
Klaasmeyer, Kelly, “Art”, Houston Press, November 20-26, 2003, p. 53.
Additional Media and Projects
2003
Included in the National Endowment for the Arts archive of NEA Visual Artists’ Fellowship recipients (in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Amercian Art)
Included in the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) through the Dallas Museum of Art
Included in the Dallas Museum of Art’s e-Museum searchable database of objects from its permanent collection.
Artist Representative  for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s television program on their exhibition “The Heroic Century”



 
     
 
   
 
 
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