When I’m creating, it's all about the flow, interplay of color, shadow and light and emotional response to my emerging composition. Very often, the way a project starts is vastly different from the way it ends. As an artist, it is always my hope that viewers make a personal connection with my work, as I feel that the allure of art is not only visceral, but informed through the eyes of spiritual observation.
Gail Mancuso (b.1968, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a Chicago-based artist/photographer. With her camera, she captures the ubiquitous but often overlooked silhouettes of the urban landscape and the female form. With a discerning eye for color, balance and composition, she utilizes materials uncommon to traditional photography, such as paint, torn paper and pencil, to blend with digital imaging techniques that subtly blur the boundary between photography and painterly impressions. Her works are held in public and private collections throughout the US, the UK and Italy and in the permanent collection at UIMA museum in Chicago.
