ASYA GEISBERG GALLERY
Let Me Show It To You Unfixed
February 2012
Gildersleeve starts with the ubiquitous and the known, and ends with the deliriously unfixed. All we are left with are discrete moments of seeming understanding and placement, and open-ended wandering. Instead of fixity, paint’s murky mushy squishyness reigns victorious.
Starting with recycled drawings, photographs, and revisited childhood places, Gildersleeve builds an increasing complexity – and like a visual puppet-master, deftly orchestrates our eyes’ travel in perpetual motion. Rather than a passively-observed vista that reveals itself immediately, she aims to orient the viewer in a specific way.
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