BIO

Beth Gilfilen is a painter based in New York. She has been awarded residencies from The Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, Yaddo, The Golden Foundation for the Arts, Gallery Aferro, Art Cake and The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Studio Immersion Program. Recent solo exhibitions include Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA; Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT and Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Various group exhibitions include Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY; Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; the Bronx Museum, NY and Equity Gallery, New York, NY. Her work has been reviewed in ArtSpiel, Two Coats of Paint, The New Criterion, The Boston Globe, The Newark Star-Ledger and The New York Times. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and her BFA from the University of Cincinnati.

Beth’s paintings are rooted in the language of abstraction and are built through a generative process of layering, negating and remaking. She often employs an exploratory line that seems to stem directly from the nervous system. Her work develops  over extended periods of time and a topography of movements is woven into dense, atmospheric spaces. 

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