Gail LeBoff

Misty Calm, 2004
photo ink on canvas

Gail LeBoff (American, born 1950), Misty Calm, 2004, photo ink on canvas, 30 x 22 in. Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2005.8.

Born in Brooklyn, photographer Gail Leboff began her studies at the School of Visual Arts and went on to receive her BA and MA in Photography and Studio Art from NYU. A recipient of the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, she lives and works in New York City and Vermont, the latter the setting of her Atmosphere works. As she stated on the Ralph Pucci International website, “Atmosphere was photographed in Vermont during extreme weather shifts. I waited, in various locations, for moments when the clouds would begin to lift from the horizon, and then I would begin. I focused on the sky, thus transforming the landscape below into dark shadows and rendering the images with a monochromatic blue mood. I hope by doing this to create unsettling but mesmerizing images that would reflect our fragile but beautiful environment.”