Kidder Smith Gallery Presents Cheryl Goldsleger

Friday, 26 May 2006 11:41

Boston, MA - Cheryl Goldsleger Artist's Statement : " The elusiveness of space is one of the qualities about architecture that resonates within me.  Representational and abstract forms are equal partners in a quest to explore the fugitive nature of our understanding and knowledge of space.

Many of the works in this exhibition employ multiple spaces, vantage points, and systems of two-dimensional depiction.  This broadly inclusive approach to subject melded with a rich tactile and translucent surface are devices I use to translate my understanding of architecture, time, perception and focus.  The knowledge of past experience combines with the sensation of the present moment inviting one to understand the layered relationships within these pieces.  Geometric form, spatial depiction, diagrammatic and perspectival imagery simultaneously reveal and obscure what I am attempting to make visible.

At first glance these works may appear dissimilar.  My hope is that through prolonged engagement and inspection they will reverberate with a core vocabulary similar to how a multi-lingual person finds similar word roots nested within many languages." 

Cheryl Goldsleger's work is presented regularly in exhibitions in the United States.  Recent exhibitions include Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection a traveling show organized by the Krannert Museum in Champaign, Illinois in 2002; Improvisations, a solo traveling show originating at the Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston in 2002; Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey in 2000; Women and Geometric Abstraction at Pratt Institute in New York in 1999. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, the American Academy in New York, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Brooklyn Museum, the Islip Art Museum, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Virginia Museum, the New Orleans Museum, the Israel Museum, and the Tel Aviv Museum.

Visit the Kidder Smith Gallery at : http://www.kiddersmithgallery.com/ Exhibition May 31 – July 1, 2006.