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October 21, 2005 - November 26, 2005 Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas, Texas is pleased to announce the opening of New Paintings and Drawings by painter Gael Stack. A reception for the artist will be held on Friday, October 21, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The exhibition continues through November 26, 2005. A consistent ground, dominated by cobalt blue, has played an important role in Stack鈥檚 work for well over a decade. It has become a neutral color on which to make marks 鈥� marks specifically blurring distinctions between writing, drawing, and painting. In these new multi-layered narratives, the artist continues to examine the phenomenon of memory. Heavily worked surfaces attest to the process of painting while fragmentary texts and images evoke the notations and devices we use to remind ourselves of past events and future commitments. Composed of calligraphic strokes, Gael Stack鈥檚 works are like pages from a diary rendered in pictographs and amplified with color, tonality, and the implication of movement. In the 1970鈥檚, Stack received a BFA from the University of Illinois in Urbana and a MFA from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Her work has appeared in numerous national and international group exhibitions such as the Contemporary Arts Museum鈥檚, Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston (2005), Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection at SMU鈥檚 Meadows Museum in Dallas (2004), Establishment and Revelations at what is now the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art (1997), and Three Visions which originated at Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1996). Numerous solo exhibitions include: Musée des Beaux Arts, L'Echevinage, Saintes, France (1995), Musée de Niort, France (1996), and Gael Stack: A Survey 1974 鈥� 1989 at the Dallas Museum of Art (1989). Gael Stack's work is included in many private and public collections such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Dallas Muse