GAIL DORF ROTHFELD

PORTRAITS IN PASTEL AND MORE!

Exhibit – December 2025

Art has been the thread running through my life from childhood, when my mother recognized my gift and placed me with private art teachers who shaped my earliest creative language. As a teenager, I walked the halls of Pratt Institute and the Brooklyn Museum Art School, absorbing the energy of artists far beyond my years. I later carried that creativity into education, teaching Art, Dance, Health, and Physical Education and producing five musicals where I could choreograph movement and paint worlds onto the stage.

A deep turning point arrived in the late 1980s, when I stepped into the world of Vedantic philosophy, meditation, and yoga. Becoming a certified Master of Yoga and Meditation opened a new dimension of expression, leading me to create annual yoga-inspired performances that raised funds for homes in India and books for children in South Africa. My twenty-three-year journey with the School of Practical Philosophy brought me to Oxford, where I rekindled the portrait art that began my creative life.

My curiosity led me further into healing traditions. Completing a medical program in Traditional Chinese Medicine in the 1990s fulfilled a lifelong dream, and since 2000, I have served as a Physician of Oriental Medicine in New York and Florida. Recently, with the guidance of Barbara Gerson at Century Village, I returned to pastel portraiture—art coming home again.

My heart is full with the blessings of family: my children Asia and Logan, my granddaughters Paris and Capri, and my husband Morgan. Three years ago, with Logan’s encouragement, I found my birth sister Ginny—a reunion that completed a long-awaited harmony.

My life continues to unfold as tapestry of art, philosophy, healing, and love.