About G. Rae Wock

Born in North Dakota, Gwen Wock began drawing and painting as an adolescent and continued to create art in Alaska and Hawaii before taking up residence in Paris, where she currently lives and works. Wock credits living in such diverse cultures for the richness of her art and the abundance of spirit that radiates within it. Wock’s work can be found in public and private collections in the United States, France and England.

Excerpt from the PARIS VOICE, May 2001

“The French capital has infused Wock’s art. Primarily self-taught, Wock credits this city for her development as an artist. ‘Technique is good but you have to break rules to discover your own creative process. Paris exposed me to art in all forms - visual,
music, dance. There’s a constant current I tap into. Urban life caused me to delve more into my art to center myself.’”
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Francoise GREISCH, Art Critic

Gwen Wock is a painter. She is a painter as she is a sculptor, that is to say that she works with space, or more so, allows the space to work. She allows it to present itself as well within a flat surface, as within dimensions with volume by the solicitation of her incisive gestures. In painting, she awakens intimate feelings that oscillate between depth and surface, in a fascinating game of light. But these gestures, that for a painter, remain mute in the secret relationship with canvas, become musical and decisive when Wock rediscovers the resemblance with her natal country, sculpture: the material, like herself, teaches rejoicing always in the discovery of life that never intimidates. This is without doubt why when one meets the works of Gwen Wock, one looks at them as friends.