Chelsea Gilmore

Chelsea Gilmore - Things Fall Apart; The Center Cannot Hold

• Exhibition 2.10.2020 - 4.3.2020
• Reception 2.27.2020 @ 6pm
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Bio

Chelsea Gilmore is a Northern California based painter and instructor who has been teaching art for the last nine years. She is a tenure-track Professor at Modesto Junior College and has also taught at CSU Chico, Napa Valley College, Las Positas College, Cosumnes River College, and Chabot College. Her education includes a Bachelors of Studio Art with a Minor in Art History from UC Davis, a Masters of Fine Art in Painting from CSU Chico, and a Watercolor Intensive Workshop From the New York Studio School. Inspired by the economic down turn of 2008 and the haunting images of once-thriving cities like Detroit, Chelsea has continued to explore the visual elements of decay, loss, and instability through the representation of crumbling architecture.
My paintings capture the crumbling interiors and dilapidated remains of once concrete forms. Photos of broken down and abandoned buildings are used to create abstractions that explore the relationship between structure and destabilization. I hope to get across the visually engrossing qualities that these places of ruin contain by carefully selecting what to keep, what to take out and how to arrange the composition.

Artist Statement

My paintings capture the crumbling interiors and dilapidated remains of once concrete forms. Photos of broken down and abandoned buildings are used to create abstractions that explore the relationship between structure and destabilization. From these images different applications of oil paint
transforms the photo foundation into a looser representation that shifts from clear to ambiguous. Marks, glazes and layers are placed no to precisely replicate of the original structure but as an abstract
interpretation of real world forms. I hope to get across the visually engrossing qualities that these places of ruin contain by carefully selecting what to keep, what to take out and how to arrange the composition.