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Allison Gildersleeve: Here Somewhere
Places are not inert; they are repositories for all that has passed through them. In Allison Gildersleeve鈥檚 work, time is not sequential and location is not fixed. Gildersleeve picks apart and reassembles the familiar, using the variability of memory as her guide. As she puts the pieces together, her work skips through time at an erratic pace, shuffling the monumental with the mundane and twisting landscapes and interiors into compositional mazes. Gildersleeve grew up in the southeastern corner of Connecticut in a colonial farmhouse surrounded by acres of woods. She returns again and again to the settings of her childhood 鈥� wooded areas, home interiors, open highways, back country roads 鈥� to show that repeated visits to the same place invariably result in wildly divergent depictions.
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Places are not inert; they are repositories for all that has passed through them. In Allison Gildersleeve鈥檚 work, time is not sequential and location is not fixed. Gildersleeve picks apart and reassembles the familiar, using the variability of memory as her guide. As she puts the pieces together, her work skips through time at an erratic pace, shuffling the monumental with the mundane and twisting landscapes and interiors into compositional mazes. Gildersleeve grew up in the southeastern corner of Connecticut in a colonial farmhouse surrounded by acres of woods. She returns again and again to the settings of her childhood 鈥� wooded areas, home interiors, open highways, back country roads 鈥� to show that repeated visits to the same place invariably result in wildly divergent depictions.
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The Lyman Allyn Art Museum announced the upcoming exhibition Allison Gildersleeve: Here Somewhere, on view October 11, 2025 through January 18, 2026.
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