Gail Stoicheff
Force Majeure, 2023

Stoicheff’s recent group of small and mid-sized paintings recall her original motivation to begin to paint as a child—a fascination with a book of landscapes by Church, Turner and Friedrich. Their vision of The Sublime, that which is appealing but also slightly ominous, continues to inform her practice to the present. Here, she advances within her framework of Hellenic mythology with imagined metaphysical landscapes of Mount Olympus and its godly occupants. Employing rich color and mysterious symbolism, she invites beauty to meet the strange in this physically and psychologically lush new group of works.