Location: Stanford / San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Medium: Sculpture, Video, Interactive Installation, Print, Experimental Media
Website: Stanford faculty profile
Gail Wight is an artist and Professor Emerita of Art & Art History at Stanford University, where she directed the Experimental Media Arts program. She holds an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute (Javits Fellow) and a BFA from the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art. Her work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and shown in over a dozen solo exhibitions across North America and Great Britain. She is represented by Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco. Residencies include the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Art & Archaeology at Stonehenge, SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia, the Exploratorium (San Francisco), and the Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito).
Wight works at the intersection of science, natural history, and studio art, translating observed biological phenomena and evolutionary time through sculpture, video, interactive media, and print. Her practice blends formal precision with a quietly subversive wit — she constructs elaborate objects from fly wings, abalone shards, and other overlooked biological material, then scales, composes, and recontextualizes them to reveal the strangeness already present in the natural world. Her work consistently asks what science measures and what it misses, and what the gap between those two things looks like as an object.
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