Watch a discussion with Gail Norfleet, Jim Woodson, and Sedrick Huckaby on
The Art of Painting: A Conversation with President Bush's Art Instructors at The George W. Bush Presidential Center
View the exhibition "Gail Norfleet: Cubes / Flowers / Still Life" on Artsy
View the exhibition "Gail Norfleet: Pages from a Glass Book" on Artsy
View the exhibition "Gail Norfleet: Made in Layers" on Artsy
Listen to Gail Norfleet's Artist Talk about her 2019 exhibition Made in Layers
See Gail Norfleet's monotype in the Dallas Museum of Art collection
See Gail Norfleet's work on Draper James
Education:
1972 M.F.A., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
1969 B.F.A., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 Gail Norfleet: Cubes / Flowers / Still Life, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2022 Gail Norfleet: Pages from a Glass Book, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2020 Gail Norfleet: Bending Toward The Light, Michelson Museum of Art, Marshall, Texas
2019 Gail Norfleet: Made in Layers, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2016 Gail Norfleet: The Shape of a Flower, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2013 Gail Norfleet: The Studio, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2009 Gail Norfleet: Looking at Art, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2004 The Glass Work, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2002 Gail Norfleet: Ghosts, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1999 Cedar Valley College, Lancaster, Texas
1983 DW Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1976 Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1974 Austin College, Sherman, Texas
Group Exhibitions:
2023 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2022 Honduras Threads, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2022 Summer Group Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2022 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2021 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2020 On Being Human, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2019 Bird Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2019 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2019 Portraits of Courage, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida
2018 Portraits of Courage, Arizona Heritage Center, Papago Park, Tempe, Arizona
2018 Portraits of Courage, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
2018 Portraits of Courage, Wonders of Wildlife, Springfield, Missouri
2018 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2018 Portraits of Courage, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas
2017 TREES: A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. (Greek Proverb), Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2017 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2017 Portraits of Courage, George W. Bush Presidential Center, Dallas, Texas
2016 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2015 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2014 60th Anniversary Exhibition: A Celebration of Valley House Artists, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 A Transfer of Spirit: A Selection of Artists Who Studied with Roger Winter, Kirk Hopper Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
2014 Summer Cut, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2013 Suitable Subjects: Contemporary Still Lifes, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
2013 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2012 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2010 Texas Women Printmakers, Texas Women’s University, Denton, Texas, curator: Vance Wingate
2010 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2009 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2009 Thank You Fort Worth: An Appreciation from Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2008 Texas Tour: 100 Years of Texas Landscape Painting, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2006 Shared Visions: Texas Artists Then and Now, curated by Paul Rogers Harris, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas; traveled to Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas, and Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
2005 Art in the Key of Green, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2004 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2003 Works on Paper, art fair, The Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
2002 McNay Art Fair, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2002 Beyond the Apple & Bottle: Still Life Invitational, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2000 Introductions, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2000 Departureturn, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
1998 New Texas Talent, Craighead Green, Dallas, Texas
1994 The Easel Artists Coloring Book, Dallas, Texas
1990 Hickory Street Annex, Dallas, Texas
1984 The Gateway Gallery Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, curator: Paul Rogers Harris
1983 An Exhibition of Drawings by Seventeen Artists from North Texas, Haggar Center; University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
1980 Paperworks, Museum of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
1980 Paperworks, Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas
1979 Made In Texas, University Art Museum, Austin, Texas, curator: Becky Duval Reese
1979 Paperworks: An Exhibition of Texas Artists, San Antonio Museum Association, San Antonio, Texas
1979 Paperworks, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
1978 The Mondale Collection, Vice Presidential Mansion, Washington, DC
1978 Big Name Show, 500 Exposition, Dallas, Texas
1978 City Art, City Hall, Dallas, Texas
1977 Texas Drawings, Elmira College, Elmira, New York
1976 Faculty Exhibition, Austin College, Sherman, Texas
1976 St. Valentine’s Show, Frogmore Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1975 17th Annual Invitational Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Longview Museum and Art Center, Longview, Texas, juror: Harry Parker
1975 Appalachian National Drawing Competition, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, juror: Ivan Karp
1975 Fort Worth Tarrant County Annual, Fort Worth, Texas
1975 20th Annual Exhibition of Southwest Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
1975 Texas Drawing Invitational, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1975 Dog Show, University Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
1974 Texas Fine Arts Association, Dallas, Texas, juror: John Leeper
1973 Fort Worth Tarrant County Annual, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, juror: Jane Livingston
1973 Texas Drawing Invitational, Smither Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1972 Texas Artists’ ’72 Invitational, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
1972 Davidson National Printing and Drawing Exhibition, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
1972 Southwest Drawing and Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
1972 Drawing Invitational, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1972 1972 Southwest Graphics Invitational, San Antonio, Texas, juror: Byron Kelley
1970 Fort Worth Tarrant County Annual, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, juror: Walter Hopps
1970 Images on Paper, Mississippi Arts Association, Jackson, Mississippi, juror: Ida Kolhmeyer
Literature:
Casey Lesser, “The Artist Who Taught George W. Bush to Paint,” Artsy.net, April 4, 2017. Spring #1, Spring #2, and Spring #3 reproduced.
Mimi Swartz, “W. and the Art of Redemption,” The New York Times, OP-ED, A25, March 21, 2017.
George W. Bush, Portraits of Courage: a Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors, Crown Publishers, 2017.
Michael Granberry, “Artist Captured Dallas’ ‘Forgotten Environs,’” The Dallas Morning News, Arts section, page 8E, May 22, 2016.
Gail Sachson, “The Dallas Art Fair: The Home Team Had the Advantage,” Art + Seek, KERA North Texas Public Broadcasting, April 15, 2015. Wildflowers and Hummingbird Moths reproduced. Available from http://artandseek.net/2015/04/15/the-dallas-art-fair-the-home-team-had-the-advantage/
60th Anniversary Catalogue, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 2014. Texas Wildflowers: Drawn, Photographed, Painted reproduced.
“Up Front: Visual Arts,” Arts + Culture TX, October 2014, page 17. Paul, Jan, John, David reproduced.
A Transfer of Spirit: a selection of artists who studied with Roger Winter, exhibition catalogue, Kirk Hopper Fine Art, September 2014, pages 1 and 35. Paul, Jan John, David and Hollyhock Dream reproduced.
Modern Luxury Dallas, December 2009, cover illustration, detail of Butterfly Girl #1.
Lydia Regalado, “Gail Norfleet: Looking at Art,” THE, April 2009, page 42.
Rebecca Sherman, “Captured on Canvas! (You Might Be One of Them), www.decordallas.com, March 6, 2009.
Roger Winter, On Drawing, Fourth Edition, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008, pages 62-63. Patriotic Snowman reproduced.
Janet Kutner, “Art Review: Generations,” The Dallas Morning News Guide, June 15, 2006, pages 1G and 4G.
Janet Kutner, ““Ghosts” Inhabit Valley House,” The Dallas Morning News, May 29, 2002, page 12.
Mike Daniel, “Quick Sketch: David FeBland, Gail Norfleet, Garrett Speirs,” The Dallas Morning News Guide, April 28, 2000, page 63.
“Dallas City View: Pleased To Meet You,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, April 28, 2000, page 51.
Bret McCabe, “City Lights: David FeBland stands out at Valley House Gallery’s three-person show,” The Met, May 24–May 31, 2000, page 28.
Teaching:
2012-2014 Painting instructor for President George W. Bush
2007 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, Adjunct Lecturer
2004-2015 Cedar Valley College, Lancaster, Texas, Adjunct Painting Instructor
2003 Richland College, Dallas, Texas
2000 Cedar Valley College, Lancaster, Texas
1976-1979 Richland College, Dallas, Texas
1974-1975 Austin College, Sherman, Texas
Collections:
Atlantic Richfield Company, Dallas, Texas
Bates Container, Dallas, Texas
Continental Bank, Houston, Texas
Coopers & Lybrand, Dallas, Texas
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Fort Worth National Bank, Fort Worth, Texas
The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
Hillcrest State Bank, Dallas, Texas
Longview Museum of Art, Longview, Texas
Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas
Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, Texas
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
