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Geary Gallery Jan/Feb 2015 Show
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ANOTHER WAY IN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
foreword
essays
sally gil: excavating the present_by julie h. reiss
making it up: rebekah goldstein_by maria porges
works
artist bios
Sally Gil & Rebekah Goldstein: Another Way In is
published to accompany an exhibition at Geary
Gallery, New York, from January 8 to February 7,
2015.
Artworks © Sally Gil and Rebekah Goldstein
Essays by Julie Reiss and Maria Porges
Photography by Bill Orcutt
Graphic Design by Shuya Gong
Exhibition hours:
Tuesday-Saturday: 12-6PM
Monday by appointment only
Jack Geary Gallery
185 Varick St
New York, NY 10014
www.jackgearycontemporary.com
FOREWORD
We are privileged to present Sally Gil and Rebekah Goldstein: Another Way In.
The two women artists, from opposite coasts of Brooklyn and San Francisco, are presented as small
solo shows within the gallery.
Though the two artists’ works are unrelated and the artists work in vastly different ways, they both
inspire an intense engagement with their art in order to discover many layers of influence and
imagery that slowly reveal and provide windows into their mesmerizing created worlds.
Improvisation and happy accidents are embraced by both artists; and through their deep knowledge
with their materials and openness to experimentation, the artists take collage, painting and works
on paper beyond their 2-D status to a multi-dimensional realm of wonder.
In Rebekah Goldstein’s paintings, both large scale and compact, one gets the sense of structures and
spaces that are held together by their own internal logic. Through layered applications of paint,
Goldstein investigates relationships between forms, planes of color, materiality, and gesture.
Overriding the abstract-representational binary, her works employ paint in various thicknesses and
white space to illustrate spaces suggestively real yet not fully literal. One can navigate these areas
without ever needing to fully settle in.
Sally Gil’s work, carefully constructed through cut out images of found objects, like old encyclopedias
and catalogues combined with her own drawings and paintings, create what seem like maps to other
worlds - to places with a hint of magic. Often starting with black paper mache, the built up and
textured works contain fantasy images alongside iconic historical references, connected through
recurring patterns. The artist plays a cat and mouse game, hiding and then peeling back layers to
rediscover things, in the process of creating the works.
We are thrilled that Sally Gil is for the first time activating the gallery’s project space with a living
mural-like work that will evolve throughout the exhibition and invite the public to witness its
creation.
Our deepest appreciation to the artists for sharing their powerful works and to the writers, Julie
Reiss and Maria Porges who contributed such thoughtful essays for the catalogue.
Dolly Bross Geary and Jack Geary
Sally Gil: Excavating the Present
Julie H. Reiss
Making It Up: Rebekah Goldstein
Maria Porges
WORKS
sally gil
A Way In, 2012-14
Collage, Acrylic, Casein, and Housepaint on Panel 17.5X 17.5
Indigenous Mass, 2012-14
Collage, Acrylic, Casein, and Housepaint on Paper 42X42
Training at Paren, 2012-14
Collage, Acrylic, Casein, and Housepaint on Paper 12X16
A Rowboat A Canoe, 2012-14
Collage, Acrylic, Casein, and Housepaint on Paper 10X28
Two Stellar Women, 2013-15
Collage, Acrylic, Casein, and Housepaint on Paper 58X60
Galaxy, 2012-14
Collage, Acrylic, Casein, and Housepaint on Paper 30X85
WORKS
rebekah goldstein
Vase Face, 2014
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
65X52
I Wouldn’t Be Surprised, 2014
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
65X52
Untitled Watercolor and gouache on paper
6x8
Untitled Watercolor, acrylic, gouache, and color pencil on paper 5X7
Untitled
Watercolor, acrylic, and gouache on paper 6X8
Untitled Acrylic and gouache on paper 5.5X9
Untitled
Acrylic, gouache, and color pencil on paper 7.5X11.5
Untitled Acrylic, gouache, and color pencil on paper 5.5X7.5
Untitled
Watercolor, acrylic, gouache, and color pencil on paper 9X11
Untitled Watercolor, acrylic, gouache, and color pencil on paper 7.5X11
Untitled Watercolor, acrylic, and gouache on paper
8X11.5
Untitled Acrylic and gouache on paper 7X11
Untitled
Acrylic, gouache, and color pencil on paper 5X7
Untitled Watercolor, acrylic, and gouache on paper 5.5X7
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Sally Gil, based in Brooklyn, received her BA
from UC at San Diego and her MFA from Hunter
College, CUNY. She has had solo exhibitions at
571 Projects, NY (2010), University of North
Carolina, Charlotte (2009), and Dean Bergen
Gallery, NYC (2007). Her work has been featured
in group exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum,
NY (1997); Art in Embassies (2013), and White
Columns, NYC (1999), among other venues. The
artist was a Fellow at Apexart (2013) and a
Visiting Artist at University of North Carolina,
Charlotte (2010). A selection of her work is held
in The Viewing Program, The Drawing Center,
NYC.
Rebekah Goldstein currently
resides in San Francisco and received
her BA from Sarah Lawrence College,
NY, and her MFA from California
College of The Arts, San Francisco. She
is represented by CULT/Aimee Friberg,
San Francisco. Solo exhibitions of her
work have been held at Cult Exhibitions
San Francisco (2014), 50 Fremont, San
Francisco (2014), and City Limits Gallery,
Oakland (2013). Her group exhibitions
include shows at The Battery, San
Francisco (2014); Alter Space Gallery,
San Francisco (2013); and the Berkley Art
Center, Berkley (2013). In addition to
residencies at The Atlantic Center for
The Arts, New Smyrna, Florida (2012),
CCAs New York Studio Program, AICAD
Studio, Brooklyn (2011), Goldstein
founded The Painting Salon in 2012, a
monthly forum that fosters conversation
about contemporary art practice.