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Allison Gildersleeve's expressionistic paintings are based on the landscapes of her childhood in the Northeast.  She consistently places the viewer just outside the space where a house's property might end, collapsing the chaos of that uncultivated environment into an irresolute pattern. Always in proximity to this complex terrain but not always attainable is the promised security of a house or the relief of sunlight at the end of a shadowed path. With their constant interplay of the logical and the incomprehensible, the paintings hover on the line between clarity and abstraction, allowing only brief glimpses of resolve before they dissolve once again into the layered intricacies of paint and mark. Gildersleeve received a Masters in Fine Art at Bard College in 2004, and a Bachelor of Arts from William and Mary in 1992. Gildersleeve has been a NYFA Fellow in Painting and the recipient of artist fellowships at Yaddo, the Millay Colony and the Vermont Studio Center.  She has had solo exhibitions at Galleri Andersson/Sandstrom in Sweden, Michael Steinberg Fine Art in New York, NY, Supreme Trading in Brooklyn, NY, and Spheris Gallery in Dartmouth, NH. Recent two-person exhibitions include Johansson Projects in Oakland, CA, Allegra LaViola Gallery in New York, NY, PS122 in New York, NY, and Sara Nightinggale Gallery in Watermill, NY. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Elisabeth Kley's ceramics are designed to theatrically accessorize the domestic interiors that belong to the aging dandies she's also been drawing for years. Many of her visual references - garish Russian textiles, Baroque grotesque ornamentation, and Islamic art - come second and third generation as found in paintings and set designs by artists including Matisse, Van Dongen and Natalia Goncharova. In her work, these fine art and decorative elements are filtered back on to quasi-utilitarian objects. Elisabeth Kley's most recent solo exhibition was a group of ceramic birdhouses and birdbaths installed last fall at Le Petit Versailles, a community garden on the Lower East Side. Her series of peacock prints was published last winter by Element Editions. Other past shows include a 2007 solo at Momenta Art, and exhibitions at galleries including A. M. Richard Fine Art, Rose Burlingham, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, Exit Art, PS 122 and Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery. Currently, her work can also be seen in Forever and Never, One More Time, a two-person exhibition at Season, in Seattle.   

Brooke Moyse references traditional landscape painting as a means to represent energy through a sacred space. The landscape acts as a space to visualize energy as a living force that exists behind appearances. Loosely painted but specifically architectural, her paintings define an active space that - despite conflict - identify, harmonize, and balance.  Brooke Moyse lives and works in New York. She received an MFA from NYU in 2006 and a BA from Bard College in 2001. She had a solo exhibition at Norte Maar, in Brooklyn, in 2009. Her work has been included in group exhibitions Storefront, Norte Maar, Momenta, Factory Fresh, and Silvershed, in New York.