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Allison Gildersleeve
Dirt Road In
2012

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Artist Statement Static Electric "The settings of these paintings are wooded areas hemmed-in by human habitation. They are the woods that border the roads and highways and fill the spaces between the houses of any small town. They are places gazed at, played in, trod upon, or driven past by the people that live there until they become as familiar and domestic as the dwellings where they reside. All of this human activity builds up a charge that collects everything in its path: the passage of time, the mix of emotions and activities piled up in that particular location, and the events to unfold there in the future. When I paint these woods, I want it to feel as if all the stories that took place there are unfolding simultaneously. I start with various photographs that I have collected over the years from the same locale, some I’ve taken myself, some old family snapshots. I layer different elements of these sources on top of each other. I pile them up like film stills pulled from multiple narratives until I achieve a flickering sensation, like animation, in a singular image. These paintings are experiential landscapes, ones to be felt as well as seen. I paint these environments as they present themselves to me, not as unpopulated woodlands but as dynamic, ever changing places thick with anticipation, dread, happiness, calm. While the crux of this work is the notion that over time the presence of human emotion and activity animate a place, human figures are deliberately absent. There is no person or other identity to prevent the viewer from occupying that space with his or her own histories and projections. No place is permanent, no setting fixed. Environments, like us, take on the emotional detritus of all the people that pass through them, and that emotional accumulation is in constant flux: humming, buzzing, vibrating, compressing and expanding the time perceived--making the static electric." Allison Gildersleeve

Creator:
Allison Gildersleeve
Creation Year:
2012
Dimensions:
Height: 9.13 in (23.2 cm)Width: 12 in (30.48 cm)
Medium:
Panel,Oil
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Dallas, TX
Reference Number:
Seller: 190021stDibs: LU257124182