ALLISON GILDERSLEEVE
Saturday, June 8 - Sunday, July 7, 2024
The John Little Barn
Reception: Saturday June 8, 5-7 pm
Artist VTS Talk: Sunday June 9, 2024

The Arts Center at Duck Creek is pleased to present upcoming solo exhibition featuring artist Allison Gildersleeve, opening Saturday, June 8, and on view through Sunday, July 7, 2024. A reception will be held on Saturday, June 8, from 5-7 pm.

Through a series of visual contradictions, Allison Gildersleeve's seemingly familiar environments jettison the natural order of things in favor of a space that uses the variability of memory as her only guide. Her landscapes and interiors are painted in high key color and thick gesture, offset with the simplicity of silhouetted forms of disproportionate scale. By rendering the monumental and the mundane with painterly egalitarianism, she removes the soft lens of the domestic and replaces it with something frenetic, jarring and unsettling. There are portals in Gildersleeves compositions-the bedroom door left ajar, the distant horizon of land meeting sea or sea meeting sky, but to get there, one has to first navigate the maze of painterly passages she creates, whether it be a thicket of trees, a tumble of weeds, or a cluttered kitchen table.

Allison Gildersleeve received a Masters in Fine Art at Bard College in 2004, and a Bachelor of Arts from College of William and Mary in 1992. Notable solo exhibitions include Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, Cynthia Reeves, Walpole NH, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX and Galleri Andersson/Sandstrom, Stockholm, Sweden. Selected group exhibitions include Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, NY, CRG Gallery, New York, NY, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA, among others. Gildersleeve has been awarded a NYFA Fellowship in Painting, and residencies at Liquitex Paint International Residency, London, UK, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY, Yaddo, Millay Colony, and Vermont Studio Center. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.