Biography of a Great Abstractionist
Gayle Printz began painting during the darkest days of the pandemic. Although she never intended to show anyone her work, just five months later, her paintings were added to the Permanent Exhibit of Le Musée de Peinture de Saint-Frajou in France. Since then, Printz’s artwork has won over 1,700 juried international art awards and prizes, been featured in countless worldwide solo, physical, and group exhibitions, and consistently attracted attention from leading art publications.
A renowned World Master Artist, Gayle Printz is considered one of the most important con-temporary artists of our time. Her uniquely recognizable style has established her paintings as a reference point for the international contemporary art community. Noticed by collectors, Printz’s works now rank among the world’s top art investments.
The groundbreaking talent of Gayle Printz is defined by her liberal use of unconventional colors, the deliberate yet unrestrained movement of brushstrokes to convey abstract concepts, and a palpable sense of artistic freedom. Breaking established artistic rules, Printz has an innate ability to cross genres, creating works that range from abstract, modernistic, geometric, expressionistic, and post-Impressionistic styles to paintings reminiscent of those created by the nineteenth-century masters. Asked how she accomplishes this, Printz humbly admits that, as an artist without formal training, she is simply unaware of the rules. “And in a world without rules, the artistic possibilities are endless.”
Gayle Printz also creates a three-dimensionality in her paintings that allows new imagery and significance to emerge as the viewer changes their angle of gaze. Captivating the viewer’s attention, her paintings provoke the imagination to capture profound personal and universal meanings within. Believing that the importance of any artwork is based on the emotion it evokes, Printz neither defines the meaning of her work nor intrudes upon the viewer’s journey to find what makes it significant to them. “As with life, the meaning in my work depends upon the way you look.
Gayle Printz is nothing less than inspiring. Exploring freedom of expression in an untraditional way, she created beauty and light from darkness. Today, Gayle Printz hopes to give all of us the uninterrupted freedom to experience life-and art-in unanticipated ways, as her extraordinary paintings summon you to find meaning in a world where the whispers of your imagination can never be wrong.
Critical review
An artist of extraordinary skill and an internationally recognized master, Gayle Printz ranks among today’s most admired abstract painters, highly praised by critics. Her art is spontaneous and natural-almost innate— a discovery made almost by chance, Printz’s works, which have effectively given rise to a new artistic movement, are defined by a genuine freedom of gesture— a liberated stroke that flows directly from the emotions of her soul. Her pieces feature a remarkable tactile quality, almost three-dimensional, which further enriches each composition. Printz’s abstract expressionism is something entirely new: a journey into inner discovery. After all, this is precisely her goal -to move the viewer’s soul. Each painting holds a hidden secret, waiting to be uncovered, and appears to emerge not only from the artist’s intention but also from chance occurrences that become integral to the artwork’s story. On the cover, we have featured a piece we fell in love with at first sight. It stands apart from Gayle’s usual body of work, evoking Bauhaus design, and we believe this is incredible be cause it demonstrates how Printz’s innate talent allows her to continuously create fresh, spontaneous innovations.
Gayle is a woman with a sensitive soul; she treasured her life experiences and elaborated them into an intense philosophy of thought. In just a few short years Gayle has shown the world her artistic talent, and her abstract artworks depict the wonderful universe that is Gayle. As a Great Abstractionist, Gayle Printz has a special way of expressing emotion through her art. Her feelings are delicately poured onto her canvases as if they were a diary. The pictorial technique of some of her works of art sometimes reminds me of that of the great Maestro Jackson Pollock: his dripping technique, where the color was placed on the canvas with extreme freedom. But, there is a great distinction between the artists.
I think Gayle is truly a free-spirited person. Her chromatic choices reflect the care that Gayle puts into creating her works of art: the colors are perfectly matched to each other, creating unique chromatic harmonies expressing the wonders that distribute it and offering harmony to us in a rare, original way. Gayle’s artwork is pure artistic passion and vital energy.
Looking at her paintings, a phrase by Vincent Van Gogh comes to mind: “I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” Before starting to paint, Gayle dreamed of a way to express her infinite creativity and, once she found the way, she too began to paint her dream.
- “GAYLE PRINTZ A WORLD MASTER ARTIST, “ A Critical Review by Dottora Beatrice Cordaro, Art Historian and Curator, Pages 24 – 25, Great Abstractionists: Stories Of Today’s Major Abstract Artists, Gayle Printz: Cover Artist, ISBN: 9788894753455, StudioArte22, Palermo, Italy, July 2024