EDUCATION Bachelor of Fine Arts Washington University, St. Louis School of Fine Arts, 1986 Studies in Drawing and Printmaking Arkansas Arts Center Museum School, 1980 TEACHING Instructor in Beginning Drawing Napa Valley College, Napa, CA, 1987 EXHIBITIONS ArtWorks XVIII Arkansas Repertory Theatre Little Rock, AR, April 2005 Arkansas Blues Exhibit celebrating Martin Scorsese presents "The Blues" Arkansas Educational Television Network Conway, AR - Sept. 27 - Nov. 30, 2003 "Worth a Thousand Words" International Theatre Poster Exhibition Gallery Stratford Stratford, Ontario, Canada, Summer 2002 ArtWorks XV Staff's Choice Award Arkansas Repertory Theatre Little Rock, AR, May 2002 First Digital Art Competition Beecher Center for Technology in the Arts at The Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, Ohio, April - October, 2001 Macworld Expo 2000 Digital Art Gallery Second Place - Professional Category Traveling exhibition began New York, NY, in September, 2000, visited numerous cities across US, ended San Francisco, CA, in January, 2001 Gary Wayne Golden and Thom Hall POMPEII Cafe Hot Springs, AR, October - December, 1999 Homage to Salvador Dali Fraser Gallery Washington, D.C., August, 1999 Digital Art 1999 Best of Show Nexus Gallery New York, NY, August, 1999 Gary Wayne Golden: Prints Gallery 26 Little Rock, AR, June 5 - July 16, 1999 ArtWorks XI Arkansas Repertory Theatre Little Rock, AR, April 1998 Society of Illustrators 40th Annual Exhibition Museum of American Illustration New York, NY, March 1998 ArtWorks X Arkansas Repertory Theatre Little Rock, AR, April 1997 The Past, Present & Future of Illustration Art Institute of Phoenix Phoenix, AZ, March 1997 Society of Illustrators Digital Salon New York, NY, December 1996 ArtWorks IX Arkansas Repertory Theatre Little Rock, AR, March 1996 Macxibition '96 NYMUG MacFair New York, NY, March 1996 AWARDS Staff's Choice Award, Artworks XV Arkansas Repertory Theatre Little Rock, AR, May 2002 Second Place - Professional Category Macworld Expo 2000 Digital Art Competition New York/San Francisco, 2000-2001 Best of Show, Digital Art 1999 Nexus Gallery New York, NY, August, 1999 Best Still Image, Macxibition '96 NYMUG MacFair New York, NY, 1996 Caroline Risque-Janis Sculpture Prize Washington University, St. Louis, 1983 PUBLICATIONS Soiree magazine Little Rock, Arkansas April 2005, (p. 82-85) Arkansas Democrat-Gazette March 4, 2005 (p. 4W) Arkansas Democrat-Gazette October 20, 2002 (p. 4E) Digital Fine Art Magazine Summer 2000 (p.40) Little Rock Free Press August 18, 1999 (p. 27) Arkansas Democrat-Gazette August 15, 1999 (p. 6E) Communication Arts Illustration Annual 39 July, 1998 Illustrators 40 catalogue of the Society of Illustrators Annual Exhibition 1998 Step by Step Electronic Design February, 1998 Step by Step Electronic Design January, 1998 (Cover, p. 2-3, 16) Arkansas Democrat-Gazette December 14, 1997 (p. 5E) Society of Illustrators Digital Salon catalogue January, 1997, (p. 18) Computer Artist Magazine April/May, 1996 (p. 40) Mac Street Journal May, 1996 (Cover, p. 35) PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Mr. & Mrs. Barry Burks, Little Rock, AR Mr. Charles Burks, Los Angeles, CA Ms. Mary Cockrill, Little Rock, AR Ms. Cici Davidson, Little Rock, AR Mr. Don Edwards, Little Rock, AR Mr. & Mrs. Gary Feist, Austin, TX Mr. Patrick Flanigan, Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Richard Freeland, N. Little Rock, AR Mr. & Mrs. Robert Ginnaven, Little Rock, AR Mr. Michael Goshen, N. Little Rock, AR Mr. Hunter Gray, Little Rock, AR Dr. & Mrs. Benjamin Guise, Little Rock, AR Mr. & Mrs. Odon Hidalgo, Little Rock, AR Mr. D. Michael Huckabay, Jr., Little Rock, AR Mr. Joseph Kolb, Little Rock, AR Ms. Gloria Lawson, Little Rock, AR Mr. David Massey, Eureka Springs, AR Mr. Andrew J. McClurg, Memphis, TN Mr. & Mrs. Roger Mears, Little Rock, AR Mr. & Mrs. Gregg Petersen, Little Rock, AR Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Stark, New York, NY Mr. Grif Stockley, Little Rock, AR Mr. Paul Remmel, III, Austin, TX Mr. & Mrs. Randall Sumbles, Little Rock, AR Ms. Jessica Svoboda, Little Rock, AR Mr. Jimmy Weisman, Little Rock, AR SELECT CLIENTS Advanced Tissue ALLTEL Argenta Community Development Corp. Arkansas Arts Center Arkansas Attorney General Consumer Protection Arkansas Children's Hospital Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Arkansas Industrial Development Corp. Arkansas Repertory Theatre Arkansas River Blues Festival Citadel Communications The Communications Group DAVCO Graphics Dave & Buster's Department of Arkansas Heritage Family Service Agency Footnote Press Foundation for the Mid South Greenland Creative, Inc. Heifer Project International Hot Springs Convention and Tourism Hunter Gray Associates KARN News Radio AM 920 FM 102.9 KURB FM 98.5 The Little Rock Free Press Little Rock Museum Consortium Lunatic Fringe Main Street Argenta Main Street Osceola/Osceola Heritage Musicfest National Medical Systems Potluck, Inc. Rose Publishing Stone & Ward TCBY
Photo: Kendy Schimmel / Nancy Nolan Photography
STATEMENT
"Be a child of your era.
Be naturalistic against your own ego.
Be matter-of-fact toward your inner visions."
-- Max Beckmann
IN the spirit of this admonition from the great German painter, I began experimenting with a Macintosh computer in 1991. After years of drawing and painting in so-called 'traditional media,' I was lost at first. Now I regard digital tools as the perfect medium, practically and symbolically, for executing the balance between the abstract and the representational in my imagery.
Especially in the fine art prints, each element -- the arc of a tree branch, the contour of a shoulder -- must conform to the underlying structure of the image, while simultaneously asserting a naturalistic volume and texture. This approach gives each image a symmetry which alternately complements and belies the emotional contents of warmth, despair, serenity, mystery and the veiled threat of violence or confusion.
Ultimately, how the image was created should be transparent. The aim is to fashion a place and moment in time which seems familiar, yet leaves us feeling as though we are trespassers in a private world.
-- GWG
These thumbnails demonstrate the evolution of Angels in America from sketch to final art.
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