Gay Outlaw

Gay Outlaw (born 1959) is an American artist working in sculpture, photography and printmaking. She is known for her "rigorous and unexpected explorations of material". She received her BA in French from the University of Virginia in 1981. Outlaw's recent work includes assemblages with her photographs and cast glass sculptures she calls "puddles".

When asked the meaning of her work, Outlaw said, "The message is no message. I call it formal free association".

Outlaw continually explores duality in her work, for example, interior and exterior, or solids and voids.

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions 1990 – The Friends of Photography at the Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, California

1996 – “New Pictures and Sculpture,” Refusalon, San Francisco, CA and Littlejohn Contemporary Art, New York, New York

1998 – SFMoMA's SECA Art Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

2003 – “New Work by Gay Outlaw,” University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia

2004 – “Impermeable,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

2005 – “Three-legged Inversions,” Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California

2007–2008 – “Gay Outlaw: Recent Work,” Gatehouse Gallery, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California

2009 – “Gay Outlaw: New Sculpture,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

2011 – “Gay Outlaw: The Velocity of Ideas,” Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, California

2012 – "New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California.

2014 – "Home", Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California.

2016–2017 – "Mutable Object", Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon