The Artist lives in Davis, California.

EDUCATION

M.F.A., 1979 Columbia University, New York, NY
1972 - 1976 New York Studio School, New York, NY (full-time study in
non-degree school)
B.A., 1974 Hamilton College (Kirkland College), Clinton, NY

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2001- University of California @Davis,
Professor and Chair of Art and Art History Department

1997 - 2000 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Professor and Head of Art and Art History Department

Summer,1998 Pont-Aven School of Art, France, Painting

1991-1997 Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA
Professor and Chair of Art and Ar t History Department

1980 - 1991 Colby College, Waterville, ME, Associate Professor of Art (promoted and
tenured Fall, 1987)

Summer 1989 Chautauqua Institute, School of Art, Resident Faculty

1974, 1975 New York Studio School, Director, Paris Summer Sessions

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

April, 1998 Trinity College, Visiting Artist
December, 1997 Dartmouth College, Chair, External Review of Art Department
February, 1995 Hood College, External reviewer of Art Department
Summer, 1994 Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, Leader of painting workshop
Fall 1994 Agnes Scott College, SACS panelist for reaccreditation
April, 1994 Haverford College, External reviewer of Art Department
February, 1994 Washington and Lee University, Visiting Artist
March, 1991 University of California, Santa Cruz, Visiting Artist
April 1989 Trinity College, External reviewer of Art Department
March 1989 Gallery 127, Portland, ME, Panelist, "Art in America"
October 1987 Bowdoin College, Visiting Artist
March 1987 University of California at Santa Cruz, Visiting Artist

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2000Connecticut Arts Commission Grant in Painting
Artist –in-Residence, Auvillar, France,
Spring 1998 University of Connecticut Research Foundation, Large Grant
Competition
1993, 1994 Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Research Grants
Spring 1993 Yosemite National Park, Artist in Residence
Spring 1991 Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle, AZ (residency)
Colby College Sabbatical Extension Grant
Summer1986 Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA (residency)
Spring 1984 Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy (fellowship)
Colby College Mellon Grant for travel in Italy on sabbatical leave
1982 - 1983 Colby College, Wingate Fund for Faculty Development
Summer 1981 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (residency)
Summer 1978 Palisades Interstate Park, NY, Artist-in-Residence Program

EXHIBITIONS

Individual:

2001 Prince Street Gallery, New York City
Monty Stabler Gallery, Birmingham, AL

1998 Prince Street Gallery, New York City

1995 Monty Stabler Gallery, Birmingham, AL

1994 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Dupont Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA

1993 Monty Stabler Gallery, Birmingham, AL

1992 Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA
Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
Congress Square Gallery, Portland, ME

1989 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Gallery 127, Portland, ME

1987Harvard University, Leverett House, Cambridge, MA

1986 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

1985Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY

1983 College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

1982 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
University of Maine, Farmington, ME

1981 Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME)

1980 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY

Group :
1999 Washington Art Association, Washington, CT (3-person)

1997 Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA

1996 Karl Drerup Fine Arts Gallery, Personal Views: Four Painters and Landscape
Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH, curated by Bert Yarborough.

1995 New York Studio School, Thirty Years of Drawing, New York, NY (juried).

1994 Site 250, Fairbanks, AK
Pennsylvania School of Design, Lancaster, PA, curated by Ruth Bernard.

1991 Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA, Contemporary Landscape, curated by
Martin Mugar.

1989 Gaumann-Cicchino Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Landscape Revisited,
travelling to Philadelphia, Washington and New York city, 1989-91.
Area Gallery, Portland, ME,Visions of the Southwest.

1987 Gallery 127, Portland, ME, inaugural group show.
Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME, Artists Who Teach in Maine, curated by
Sarah Fawcett.

1986 Chautauqua Institute, Chatauqua, NY, faculty invitational.
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Landscape.

1985 New York Studio School, New York, NY, juried alumni show.
University of Maine, Farmington, ME, Painters Who Look at the Environment,
curated by Tom Higgins.

1984 Barridoff Galleries, Portland, ME, contemporary gallery artists.

1983 Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME, juried show.
Barridoff Galleries, Portland, ME, contemporary gallery artists.

1982 Joan Whitney Payson Gallery, Portland, ME, Drawings from Nature, curated
by Judith Sobol, Director.

1981 Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME, juried show.

1980 Bette Stoler Gallery, New York, NY, New Drawings.

1978 Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, juried by Irving Sandler.

REVIEWS AND REPRODUCTIONS OF WORK

Driscoll, John & Skolnick, Arnold, The Artist and the American Landscape,
First Glance Books, 1998.

Nelson, James R., Birmingham News, October 29, 1995

Skolnick, Arnold, and Little, David, Paintings of Maine, New York, 1991

Beem, Edgar Allen, Maine Art Now, Gardiner, ME, 1989

Little, Carl, "Gina Werfel at the Colby Museum", Art in America,
October, 1989 (color reproduction).

Beem, Edgar Allen, "Gina Werfel on the Shores of Expressionism",
Maine Times, April 28, 1989.

Hamlin, Louise, "Landscape Treatment," Cover - Arts New York,
February, 1987.

Kenan, Naomi, "Two Painters' Views of Same Scenes", Jersey Journal,
March 28, 1986.

Conner, Susan, "Artist's Market," statement and color reproduction,
The Artist's Magazine, February, 1986.

Kaplan, Fredy, "A Portfolio of Regional Images", American Artist, February, 1984.

Beem, Edgar Allen, "Approaching Landscape from Two Different
Directions", Maine Times, February 18, 1983.

Eder, Bruce, "Painting with a Jazz Base", New York Arts Weekly,
November 24, 1982.

Beem, Edgar Allen, "Drawings from Nature", Maine Times, May 7, 1982.

Haggerty, Gerard, "Gina Werfel and the Maine Stream", Art New England,
Summer, 1981.

Newall, Robert, "Two Artists Share Colby Show", Bangor Daily News,
May 11, 1981.

Isaacson, Phillip, review of show at Colby Museum,
Maine Sunday Telegram, May 24, 1981.

Turner, Norman, review of group show at Prince Street Gallery,
Arts Magazine, May, 1980.

Cover reproduction, Colby Magazine, Spring, 1988.

Reproduction, Colby Library Quarterly, March, 1982.

Cover reproduction, Annual Report, Palisades Interstate Park Commission, 1980

Listed in Who's Who in American Art.