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SUNDAY October 1, 2023, 4-7pm - SALLY GIL: OPEN AND SHUT

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Sally Gil: Open and Shut - Artist Statement

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Sally Gil - Underground Mansion - Paper collage and paint on stretched canvas - 25" x 28" - 2021     My individual 2D works , while not strictly autobiographical , are imbued with my personal history and discoveries and thoughts about living in the world. I draw upon the specifics and history of imagery, location, and what responses I have at the time. I am after what I do not know, and what is beyond and behind our apparent world. My works are at once a celebration of beauty, immenseness, and myster ious organization seen in the person-made and natural world - and a mourning f or the loss that is inherent in everything. Most recently, my work responds particularly to the specific locations and architecture where it is intended to be seen , in site-specific gallery exhibitions and, more permanently, in public art. It is made through a process of decisions based on composition, intuition, and happenstance. Print media images and painted paper and elements are arrang

Sally Gil: Open and Shut - Artist Resume

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  Sally Gil - Oh, Meno Male - Print media collage and paint on paper - 6 1/4" x 22 1/2" - 2021  EDUCATION MFA, Hunter College of the City University of New York BA, University of California, San Diego SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2023: OPEN AND SHUT, Vorderzimmer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2016: MOVING FAST/CONNECTING THROUGH TIME, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT 2016: OUT OF THIS WORLD, The Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT 2015: THERE IS MORE, Project room Installation, Geary Contemporary, Millerton, NY 2010: SALLY GIL WORKS ON PAPER, Solo show at 571 Projects, New York, NY 2010: UP CLOSE AND FAR AWAY, Solo Show at UNC, Charlotte, NC 2008: SALLY GIL SOLO, The Dean Bergen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022: ARTIST SAMPLER, Dean Bergen Gallery Collective, Brooklyn, NY 2022: SEVEN, 571 Projects, Stowe, VT 2021: HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE, Curated by Liz Weiss, Foley Gallery, NY 2020: EL QUE BUSCA, ENCUENTRA...Y SIGUE ECONTRANDO, Online Exhibition: White Columns,