Artist: Allison Gildersleeve

Gildersleeve’s first solo exhibition at Upsilon Gallery brings together a body of work built around a deceptively simple impulse: to be inside the spaces she creates. ⁠

There are no figures in her paintings; instead, she paints what signifies them. A favorite object. A chair. Flowers. Something that holds the weight of herself and someone she knows. Each canvas offers a space made for someone, not of them.⁠
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A two-time NYFA Fellow and the subject of a recent museum solo, Gildersleeve has spent two decades building a practice that moves between landscape, interior, and abstraction without settling in either. The work resists easy categorization, and that's precisely what makes it endure.⁠