February 2000 Issue
Somerhill Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC, Presents Works by Dorothy Gillespie
Somerhill Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC, announces its fifth one-person exhibit for New York artist Dorothy Gillespie which will be on view through Feb. 19. Gillespie, a Virginia native, will exhibit a collection of ever 30 painted aluminum sculptures in Somerhill's first exhibit of the new millennium.
Director Joseph Rowand commented, "The energy Dorothy's work emits makes us all radiate the warmth from our own charged imagination. In the many years that Dorothy and I have been associated, each new exhibition dislodges the pinnacle of the previous. This new body of work is a summit of her years of artistic growth."
On Feb. 10 the documentary film Dorothy Gillespie: Color, Space & Form premieres on WUNC-TV in NC.
Using her own language and transforming her personal visual past into new confluence of painted shapes on shifting, twisting and curling metal spirals, Dorothy Gillespie creates kaleidoscope energy to ignite our abstract imagination."
Artist Gillespie will exhibit a new collection of brightly painted metal sculpture. The works, characterized by innovative marriages of spiraling, sculpted ribbons in single and multi-piece wall installations, free-standing three-dimensional sculptural forms and often site-specific commissions.
Gillespie has appeared in one-person exhibitions at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, DE; at Roanoke College in Salem, VA; the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, FL; the Women's Interart Center in New York City; Fordham University, NY; at New York University in NY; the Gertrude Stein Gallery in NY; and the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Lima, Peru.
Gillespie's work is included in many prominent collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; the Grey Art Gallery; New York University in New York; the Fine Arts Museum in Roanoke, VA; the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, FL; the State Collection, Kessel Museum in Kellel, Germany; and the State Collection, Frankfurt Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. The North Carolina Museum of Art also owns a major wall installation.
Gillespie has many commissions on public view, a few being City Wall at the Houston and Mercer Streets in New York City, the United States Mission to the United Nations fountain sculpture and the HUD project, a 96 foot long frieze in North Miami, FL. In the Triangle area, Gillespie's works include an installed sixteen-unit wall piece at the Carolina Sprint Headquarters in Wake Forest, a work commissioned by the Adaron Group is installed at the Commercial Park West building in Research Triangle Park, and, most recently a 90 foot tall suspended, multi-panel sculpture installed in the administration Center Garage, Orlando, FL.
Gillespie's education includes a degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She also has a doctor of fine Arts from CaIdwell College in CaIdwell, NJ, and is a recipient of an honorary doctorate from Radford University in Radford, VA, where she is currently artist-in-residence. Gillespie likewise spent time studying at the Art's Student League in NY and is a Warren Wilson College Fellow.
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