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Chelsea Gilmore

Things Fall Apart; The Center Cannot Hold

Director’s Foreword

Chelsea Gilmore: - Things Fall Apart; The Center Cannot Hold, represents a chance to view her brilliant work. For most of us, the ideas of loss and decay can be most unsettling, something best avoided. But for some, it is a transition, a place to explore the past and see the beauty that exists in a form, before its ultimate demise. Through Gilmore’s images of destroyed buildings, we imagine what once stood and feel the destination and aftermath of a tragedy. It is a place like this that Gilmore’s images explore relationships and create places to imagine past and move to the future.

A few years ago, the University Art Gallery’s exhibition titled Close to Home featured the work of the faculty of Merced College and Modesto Junior College. Through this joint exhibition a new program of solo exhibitions of teaching colleagues was created. Gilmore is one of our colleagues from Modesto Junior College.

Many Modesto Junior College students have continued their education at California State University, Stanislaus. I have had the great opportunity to work with many of these students and it is clear that they have received an excellent education in the arts from the faculty of Modesto Junior College.

I am very excited to be able to exhibit Gilmore’s work for others to enjoy.

I would like to thank the many colleagues that have been instrumental in presenting this exhibition. Chelsea Gilmore for the chance of exhibiting her wonderful work, the College of the Arts, California State University, Stanislaus for the catalog design and Parks Printing for the printing this catalog.

Much gratitude is extended to the Instructionally Related Activates Program of California State University, Stanislaus, as well as anonymous donors for the funding of the exhibition and catalogue. Their support is greatly appreciated.

Dean De Cocker, Director University Art Gallery California State University, Stanislaus

Untitled, ink on paper

8” x 10”, 2014

Untitled, oil on panel, 12” x 12”, 2013

Chelsea Gilmore

Chelsea Gilmore is a Northern California based painter and instructor who has been teaching art for the last nine years. She is a tenure-track professor at Modesto Junior College and has also taught at California State University, Chico, Napa Valley College, Las Positas College, Cosumnes River College, and Chabot College.

Her education includes a Bachelors of Studio Art with a Minor in Art History from UC Davis, a Masters of Fine Art in Painting from CSU Chico, and a Watercolor Intensive Workshop From the New York Studio School.

Inspired by the economic down turn of 2008 and the haunting images of once-thriving cities like Detroit, Chelsea has continued to explore the visual elements of decay, loss, and instability through the representation of crumbling architecture.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My paintings capture the crumbling interiors and dilapidated remains of once concrete forms. Photos of broken down and abandoned buildings are used to create abstractions that explore the relationship between structure and destabilization. From these images different applications of oil paint transforms the photo foundation into a looser representation that shifts from clear to ambiguous. Marks, glazes and layers are placed not to precisely replicate of the original structure but as an abstract interpretation of real world forms. I hope to get across the visually engrossing qualities that these places of ruin contain by carefully selecting what to keep, what to take out and how to arrange the composition.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many people have made my career in art possible, without their support this exhibition would not have been imaginable. I would like to my parents Dee Dee and John Gilmore, grandmother Doris Shlarb and all my friends and family for their unconditional support.

I would also like to thank the Art Department members of Modesto Junior College, UC Davis and CSU Chico who provided me with invaluable guidance throughout my education.

Additional thanks to all my colleagues at Modesto Junior College and CSU Stanislaus for providing me with this opportunity.

oil on panel, 16” x 12”, 2018

oil on panel, 16” x 12”, 2017

oil on panel, 12” x 9”, 2016

Untitled,

Untitled, oil on panel, 12” x 12”, 2013

Untitled, oil on panel, 16” x 20”, 2016

Untitled, oil on panel, 18” x 12”, 2015

Untitled, oil on panel, 18” x 12”, 2014

Untitled, oil on panel, 16” x 20”, 2017

Untitled, oil on panel, 12” x 9”, 2015

Untitled, oil on panel, 9” x 12”, 2016

Untitled, oil on panel, 12” x 9”, 2016

Untitled, oil on panel, 9” x 12”, 2018

Untitled, oil on panel, 18” x 12”, 2014

Untitled, oil on panel, 16” x 20”, 2018

Untitled, oil on panel, 12” x 16”, 2016

Untitled, oil on panel, 12” x 18”, 2015

Untitled, oil on panel, 9” x 12”, 2016

Untitled, oil on panel, 24” x 12”, 2015

Untitled, oil on panel, 12” x 12”, 2013

Untitled, oil on panel, 12” x 16”, 2018

Untitled, oil on panel, 28” x 40”, 2018

Untitled, oil on panel, 12” x 9”, 2016

Untitled, oil on panel, 12” x 12”, 2013

Untitled, oil on panel, 24” x 24”, 2013

Untitled, oil on panel, 12” x 9”, 2018

oil on panel, 28” x 40”, 2016

oil on panel, 12” x 16”, 2013

oil on panel, 16” x 20”, 2018

Untitled,

Untitled, oil on panel, 20” x 16”, 2017

Untitled, oil on panel,18” x 26”, 2018

Untitled, ink on paper, 10” x 8”, 2014

Untitled, ink on paper, 12” x 16”, 2014

Untitled, ink on paper, 12” x 16”, 2013

Untitled, ink on paper, 10” x 8”, 2014

Untitled, ink on paper, 5” x 7”, 2019

Untitled, ink on paper, 7” x 5”, 2019

Untitled, ink on paper ,10” x 8”, 2013

Untitled, ink on paper, 5” x 7”, 2019

Untitled, ink on paper, 8” x 10”, 2014

Untitled, ink on paper, 8” x 10”, 2019

Untitled, ink on paper, 10” x 8”, 2019

Untitled, ink on paper, 8” x 10”, 2019

Untitled, oil on panel, 9” x 12”, 2016

Untitled, oil on panel, 10” x 8”, 2020

Untitled, ink on paper 12” x 16”, 2020

Untitled, ink on paper, 12” x 16”, 2020

Untitled, oil on panel, 12” x 16”, 2020

Untitled, oil on panel, 8” x 10”, 2020

Untitled, oil on panel, 12” x 16”, 2020

Untitled, oil on panel, 10” x 8”, 2020

Untitled, oil on panel, 16” x 12”, 2020

Untitled, oil on panel, 10” x 8”, 2020

Staircase, oil on panel, 28” x 40”, 2018

Chelsea Gilmore

www.chelseagilmoreart.com

EDUCATION

2008 University of California, Davis — B.A. Studio Art (Art History Minor)

2012 California State University, Chico — M.F.A. Painting

2012 New York Studio School — Drawing Workshop

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2018– Tenure Track Professor, Modesto Junior College, Modesto, Ca

2016–18 Adjunct Instructor, Modesto Junior College, Modesto, Ca

2016 Adjunct Instructor, Cosumnes River College, Sacramento, Ca

2016 Adjunct Instructor, Las Positas College, Livermore, Ca

2016 Adjunct Instructor, Cosumnes River College, Sacramento, Ca

2015 & 17 Adjunct Instructor & Full Time Semester Replacement Instructor

2014–16 Napa Valley College, Napa, Ca

2013– Instructor, Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, Ca

2011 Instructor of Record, California State University, Chico, Ca

WORK EXPERIENCE

2019– Curator/Director, Modesto Junior College Gallery, Modesto, Ca

2010–12 Curator, Laxson Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Chico, Ca

2009–12 Gallery Assistant, University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico

2010–12 Curators Assistant, Janet Turner Print Museum, California State University, Chico, Ca

2009 Studio Assistant Specialist, University of California, Davis, Ca

INTERNSHIPS

2009 Verge Gallery & Studio Project, Sacramento, Ca

2005–07 Mistlin Art Gallery, Modesto, Ca

AWARDS

Award of Excellence: Painting, California Fine Art Exhibition, Sacramento, Ca, 2015

Honorable Mention: Painting, Central California Arts Showcase, Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, Ca, 2015

Award of Merit: Painting, California Fine Art Exhibition, Sacramento, Ca, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019

Gadberry Award: Sculpture, Alternate, University of California, Davis, Ca, 2008

Department Citation for Outstanding Performance: Studio Art, University of California, Davis, Ca, 2009

SOLO AND DUO SHOWS

2009 Chelsea Gilmore, Woman’s Resource Library, University of California, Davis, Ca

2010 Indentation, Chico Paper Company, Chico, Ca

Diffused, Laxson Fine Arts Gallery, Chico, Ca

2011 Fictitious Wanderings, BMU Gallery, California State University, Chico, Ca

2012 Delicate Demolition, University Art Gallery, Chico, Ca

2015 Flora and Ash, Upper Valley Campus Gallery, St. Helena, Ca

2018 The Place that Cannot Be, Modesto Junior College, Modesto, Ca

GROUP SHOWS

2006 Movement, Mistlen Art Gallery, Modesto, Ca

Celebration of the Humanities, College Gallery, Modesto Junior College, Ca

2007 Sundry Days of Summer, Basement Gallery, University of California, Davis, Ca

2008 Awards Show, Basement Gallery, University of California, Davis, Ca

Our Backyard, Basement Gallery, University of California, Davis, Ca

Element, Memorial Union Gallery, University of California, Davis, Ca

2009 Reinterpreting the Landscape, Bodega Bay Research Lab, University of California, Davis, Ca

New Voices, BSO Gallery, California State University, Chico, Ca

2010 MFA Show, BMU Gallery, California State University, Chico, Ca

Fifty-Fifth Annual Juried Student Exhibition, University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, Ca

2011 Please Pick Up on Monday, Laxson Gallery, California State University, Chico, Ca