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April Issue 2007
Somerhill Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC, Celebrates 35th Anniversary with Exhibit of Works by Dorothy Gillespie
Somerhill Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC, is celebrating its 35 years with the 8th one-person exhibition by New York artist Dorothy Gillespie. The exhibit will be on view through Apr. 27, 2007. Gillespie, a Virginia native, represented by Somerhill for over twenty years will exhibit a collection of brightly painted abstract aluminum sculpture as well as flat wall paintings.
Gillespie's recent sculptural work is characterized by innovative marriages of spiraling, sculpted aluminum ribbons in single and multi-piece wall installations, freestanding three-dimensional sculptural forms as well as site-specific commissions.
Gillespie's artwork has appeared in many one-person exhibitions including the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, DE; Roanoke College in Salem, VA; the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, FL; the Women's Interant Center in New York City; Fordham University; New York University in New York City; the Gertrude Stein Gallery in New York City; and the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Lima, Peru.
Her work also hangs in the NC Museum of Art as well as the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Gillespie's work appears in the Ft. Lauderdale airport and was featured in a site-specific installation at Rockefeller Center.
In Feb. 2000, Gillespie was the subject of a film documentary Dorothy Gillespie: Color, Space & Form which aired on WUNC-TV. A book of the same name was published as well.
Somerhill Gallery 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. 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."
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