New work! Artist Statement 6 (details)

Current Shows:

41st Annual Juried Exhibition
Monmouth Museum
Juror: Grace Graupe-Pillard
Lincroft, NJ
January 18 - March 15, 2020
Reception: January 18, 5-7 PM


Recent Awards:

Best of Show
Design is a Verb!
Chicago Sculpture International 2018 Biennial

Non-representational Award
42nd Annual Beverly Arts Center Exhibition
2018


Recent Interview in VoyageChicago

My work is featured:
• Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century (E. Ashley Rooney, ed.), available here
• Studio Visit Magazine includes my work each year, most recently in Volume 44, juried by Francine Weiss


In my sculptural paintings, curvilinear motifs and rhythmic ribbons of saturated color create a sense of motion and energy. Features of the natural world – specific scenes and landscapes – inspire me to use these organic design elements to convey the strong impressions that I retain as precise details fade from memory.

Working with organic shapes and moving lines has also led me further into abstraction, to exploring line and color as subjects in themselves. In paper sculptures, simple wavy lines gain power and mystery as shadows are developed through accretion, and on three-dimensionally shaped surfaces, painted straight lines become dynamic. Vivid and unexpected colors prevail throughout my body of work.

"Shelley Gilchrist . . . defies the boundaries of the rectangle and square, as her shaped grounds and surface design convey rhythms, organic patterns, land formation, and water motion."
--Kim Bernard, Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century