# Gael Stack

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'''Gael Stack''' (born 1941) is a Texas painter. She lives in [Houston](/source/Houston) and has work in the permanent collections of several museums. Stack has worked as a professor at the [University of Houston](/source/University_of_Houston), serving as the art school's director in 2004 and 2005.

== Biography ==
Stack was born in [Chicago, Illinois](/source/Chicago) and attended Catholic school.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title = Gael Stack|publisher = University of Texas Press|year = 2011|isbn = 9780292728547|location = Austin, Texas|pages = 180, 187}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=http://www.chron.com/entertainment/arts-theater/article/Gael-Stack-s-artistic-vision-remains-constant-5082914.php|title=Gael Stack's artistic vision remains constant|last=Glentzer|first=Molly|date=20 December 2013|work=Houston Chronicle|access-date=2018-01-12}}</ref> In 1970, she received a BFA from the [University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign](/source/University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana%E2%80%93Champaign) and in 1972, an MFA from [Southern Illinois University, Carbondale](/source/Southern_Illinois_University_Carbondale).<ref name=":2" /> Stack moved to [Houston](/source/Houston) in 1973.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=http://www.uh.edu/class/news/archive/2013/march/gael-stack/|title=The Unspoken Art of Gael Stack|last=Byars|first=Monica|date=March 2013|website=www.uh.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-01-12}}</ref> She first started earning income as a secretary in Houston.<ref name="mcbride">{{Cite journal |last=McBride |first=Elizabeth |title=Gael Stack |journal=Artspace |volume=13 |pages=64–66}}</ref>

Stack was honored with the Moores Professorship in 1999 and served as the Director of the [University of Houston's](/source/University_of_Houston) school of art from 2004 to 2005.<ref name=":4" />

== Work ==
Gael Stack's work is unique and is sometimes misunderstood. She places letter-like figures onto dark backgrounds.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gael Stack {{!}} Untitled {{!}} 2017 {{!}} Holly Johnson Gallery |url=https://www.hollyjohnsongallery.com/artist/Gael_Stack/works/2229 |access-date=2022-03-28 |website=www.hollyjohnsongallery.com |language=en}}</ref> She creates a relationship between the two dimensions. Her art is dark, yet many people see the layers behind them. She was a single mother raising two sons and the [feminist](/source/Feminism) movement resonated with her, influencing her "to have her art reflect her reality." However, critic Alison de Lima Greene emphasizes that her art is not just [autobiographical](/source/Autobiography), but it is also very literary, borrowing [motifs](/source/Motif_(visual_arts)) from other paintings and stories. Stack is interested in exploring "language and its limits" and depicting moments in human life through her art. People confused her work for scribbles on a dark background, however, these figures represented parts of her life. She refuses to talk about her work in detail and allows people to interpret and remember them differently.<ref name="mcbride"/> 

Her work is collected by the Beaux Art Museum, the [Museum of Fine Arts, Houston](/source/Museum_of_Fine_Arts%2C_Houston), the [Dallas Museum of Art](/source/Dallas_Museum_of_Art), the [San Antonio Museum of Art](/source/San_Antonio_Museum_of_Art), the [El Paso Museum of Art](/source/El_Paso_Museum_of_Art), the [Blanton Museum of Art](/source/Blanton_Museum_of_Art) and the [Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego](/source/Museum_of_Contemporary_Art_San_Diego).

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== External links ==
* [http://www.uh.edu/kgmca//art/About-the-School/Faculty/stack-g.php Faculty page]

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