ALLISON GILDERSLEEVE
ALLISON GILDERSLEEVE
Closer Than They Appear
April 25 - May 23, 2015
Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden Dallas, Texas
Installation Views, 2015 Valley House Gallery Dallas, Texas
Studio, Brooklyn, 2015
Closer Than They Appear Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear. A rearview mirror collapses distance. Things that feel close are actually farther away. Emotions do the same thing. They collapse time to shorten the distance between the past and the present. This body of work addresses this phenomenon using two different kinds of spaces: the private domestic one and the untamed woods that surround. The small interior paintings look into a room from a point of entry. Signs of the occupants litter the empty rooms: a folded towel on a chair, a lamp left on, a half-made bed. The larger paintings look out to the disquiet just beyond the threshold: trampled ferns and fallen logs, messy backyards, the scrub of trees by the road. The road itself is a space of transition, the path that takes us from one intimacy to the next. In these works, I apply paint to describe a form but also allow the paint strokes to become forms in and of themselves. Figuration and abstraction coexist in a state of divided attention, just as the mind can focus on the task at hand while replaying a past experience. When the replay of the past takes over the present, the two become entwined. My paintings set up this same dynamic: the background becomes part of the foreground, eliminating the middle ground and compressing two planes into one. Allison Gildersleeve
Closer Than They Appear 2015 oil on canvas 63 x 73 inches
Looking for Cover 2013 oil on canvas 60 x 72 inches
Cathedral 2015 oil on canvas 40 x 34 inches
The Breach 2014 oil on canvas 64 x 64 inches
Scrabble Hill 2010 oil on canvas 24 x 24 inches
Fields Untended 2013 oil on canvas 66 x 72 inches
Runoff 2015 oil on panel 60 x 60 inches
Playground 2015 oil on canvas 48 x 48 inches
Dirt Road In 2012 oil on panel 9 x 12 inches Forgotten Boundary 2011 oil on canvas 32 x 36 inches
Round the Curve 2015 oil on canvas 34 x 40 inches Snag 2015 oil on canvas 34 x 40 inches
Installation Views, 2015 Valley House Gallery Dallas, Texas
Foothold 2013 oil on canvas 42 x 46 inches
Blue 2014 oil on panel 12 x 12 inches Morning 2011 oil on canvas 10 x 10 inches Magazines and Books 2014 oil on panel 10 x 10 inches
Between Houses 2014 oil on panel 10 x 10 inches
Pictures on the Wall 2013 oil on canvas 20 x 20 inches
Bedroom 2014 oil on panel 10 x 10 inches Sink 2014 oil on canvas 10 x 10 inches Family 2014 oil on panel 10 x 10 inches
Desk 2010 oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches Afternoon 2015 oil on canvas 9 x 12 inches Sharon Street 2011 oil on canvas 11 x 14 inches
Line of Birches 2015 oil on canvas 11 x 14 inches
The Snake in the Well 2012 oil on canvas 20 x 20 inches
Untitled in Green 2010 oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches After the Party 2013 oil on panel 8 x 8 inches Tracking Over 2013 oil on panel 8 x 8 inches
Untitled 2014 ink on paper 12 x 12 inches Untitled 2014 ink on paper 12 x 12 inches Untitled 2014 ink on paper 12 x 12 inches
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1970. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. education 2004 M.F.A., Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 1992 B.A., College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA solo exhibitions 2015 VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY, Closer Than They Appear, Dallas, TX 2014 CYNTHIA-REEVES Gallery, Paintings and Drawings, Walpole, NH ASYA GEISBERG GALLERY, Elsewhere, New York, NY ROBISCHON GALLERY, Within Earshot, Denver, CO 2012 GALLERI ANDERSSON SANDSTRÖM, Static Electric, Umeå, Sweden CYNTHIA-REEVES NEW ENGLAND, Written Under, Hanover, NH ASYA GEISBERG GALLERY, Let Me Show It To You Unfixed, New York, NY 2010 CYNTHIA-REEVES NEW ENGLAND, Hanover, NH 2009 GALLERI ANDERSSON SANDSTRÖM, The Here and Then, concurrent shows in both galleries, Umeå and Stockholm, Sweden 2007 MICHAEL STEINBERG FINE ART, Loss of Place, New York, NY 2005 650 MADISON AVE EXHIBITION PROGRAM, New York, NY 2004 SUPREME TRADING, Brooklyn, NY 1998 RED MILL GALLERY, Good Girl, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT two-person exhibitions 2011 JOHANSSON PROJECTS, Bramblur: Katy Stone & Allison Gildersleeve, Oakland, CA 2010 ALLEGRA LAVIOLA GALLERY, Eric Jeor & Allison Gildersleeve, New York, NY 2003 PS122 GALLERY, Allison Gildersleeve & Cynthia Innis, New York, NY 1999 SARAH NIGHTINGALE GALLERY, Allison Gildersleeve & Carol Hinrichsen, Water Mill, NY group exhibitions 2014 VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY, 60TH Anniversary Show, Dallas, TX VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY, Summer Cut, Dallas, TX 2013 ASYA GEISBERG GALLERY, A.G.G.W.O.P., New York, NY 2012 HEINER CONTEMPORARY, Housebound, Washington, DC 2011 DUNKERS KULTURHUS, Under Great Pressure, Helsingborg, Sweden STOREFRONT GALLERY, Color Schemes, Brooklyn, NY ASYA GEISBERG GALLERY, The Woods are Lovely, Dark and Deep, New York, NY 2010 SILAS MARDER GALLERY, The Big Show, Bridgehampton, NY HESKIN CONTEMPORARY, Natural Reaction, Brooklyn, NY 2009 DUMBO ART UNDER THE BRIDGE FESTIVAL, The Map is Not the Territory, Brooklyn, NY LAVIOLABANK GALLERY, Summer Salon, New York, NY 2008
BIOGRAPHY CONTINUED
2009 MICHAEL STEINBERG FINE ART, Back to the Drawing Board, New York, NY 2007 HESKIN CONTEMPORARY, Red Desert, curated by Sarah Trigg, New York, NY 2006 COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS, Flow: Navigating the Super Paradigm, curated by Karlos Carcamo, Beacon, NY CRG GALLERY, Greater Brooklyn, New York, NY HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, First Look, Peekskill, NY 2004 SUPREME TRADING, Six, Brooklyn, NY MILTON AVERY GRADUATE SCHOOL, The Warm Weather is Holding, Red Hook, NY 2001 BAY AREA CENTER FOR THE CONSOLIDATED ARTS, Berkeley, CA 2000 BOWERY GALLERY, curated by Joan Snyder, New York, NY GANA ART SPACE, Cross Point, Seoul, Korea 381G GALLERY, Delicate, San Francisco, CA bibliography Laluyan, Oscar. Arte Fuse, “Arte Fuse Presents the Best in Show of 2014”, December 29, 2014. Laluyan, Oscar. “Gildersleeve Going Elsewhere and Taking You There”, Arte Fuse, May 22, 2014. Keeting, Zach and Joy, Christopher. “Artist Interview II,” Gorky’s Granddaughter, May 2014. Jenkins, “Concept of ‘Home’ Gives Rise to Artistic Differences”, The Washington Post, December 27, 2012. Perrine, Forrest. Beautiful Decay, “Allison Gildersleeve’s Natural Impressionism”, October 22, 2012. Hanson, Alex, “In Showing Mastery of the Form, An Abstract Landscape Painter Raises Issues”, Valley News, New Hampshire, July 19, 2012. Maine, Stephen. “Tunnel Vision: Allison Gildersleeve at Asya Geisberg,” Artcritical, April 4, 2012. Keeting, Zach and Joy, Christopher. “Artist Interview,” Gorky’s Granddaughter, February 2012. Butler, Sharon. “NYC Gallery Visit: Allison Gildersleeve and Eric Jeor,” The Huffington Post, May 21, 2010. Hanson, Alex, “On View at Spheris: Rendering Trees as Thoughts and Vice Versa”, Valley News, New Hampshire, August 26, 2010. Sylwan, Astrid, Falling into Allison's World, catalog essay for The Here and Then, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm, 2009. Smith, Roberta."Greater Brooklyn," The New York Times, July 8, 2005 E32. Genocchio, Benjamin."ART REVIEW; For the Young and Creative, A Showcase for a First Run," The New York Times, June 5, 2005 E32. catalogs and publications Static Electric, Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umeå, Sweden, 2014. Green Art: Trees, Leaves and Roots, E. Ashley Rooney, Shiffer Books, 2014. Understorpress, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden, 2012. Let Me Show It To You Unfixed, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY, 2012. The Woods are Lovely, Dark and Deep, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY, 2011. The Here and Then, essay by Astrid Sylwan, Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umeå and Stockholm, Sweden, April 2009. 100 Artists of the Mid-Atlantic, E. Ashley Rooney, Shiffer Books, 2011.
Untitled 2014 ink on paper 12 x 12 inches
PRECEDING PAGES Sitting Room 2013 oil on canvas 24 x 24 inches Untitled 2014 ink on paper 12 x 12 inches COVER Runoff, detail 2015 oil on panel 60 x 60 inches BACK COVER Stack 2014 oil on panel 12 x 12 inches PHOTO CREDIT Etienne Frossard
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