Behind my work lies a singular proposition: places are not inert; they are repositories for all thatpasses through them. My work shows that experiences and sensations are manifestly lodgedwithin our surroundings — not as formal histories but as personal, ever-changing narratives.In my work, time is not sequential and location is not fixed. I pick apart and reassemble thefamiliar, using the variability of memory as my guide. As I put the pieces together, my workskips through time at an erratic pace, shuffling the monumental with the mundane.I return again and again to familiar settings — wooded areas, home interiors, open highways,back country roads — to show that repeated visits to the same place invariably result in wildlydivergent depictions.Gildersleeve received her MFA from Bard College and her BA from William and Mary.Gildersleeve has exhibited widely across the United States and abroad. Notable soloexhibitions include The Lyman Allyn Art Museum (New London, CT) Duck Creek Arts Center(East Hampton, NY), Asya Geisberg Gallery (New York, NY), Auxiliary Projects (Brooklyn, NY),Robischon Gallery (Denver, CO), Cynthia Reeves (Walpole NH), Valley House Gallery (Dallas,TX), The George Gallery (Charleston, SC) Galleri Andersson/Sandstrom (Stockholm, SE) andOlle Nymans Ateljeer (Stockholm, SE). Selected group exhibitions include Eric Firestone Gallery(East Hampton, NY), Orwells Garden (Brooklyn, NY), Sarah Shephard Gallery (Larkspur, CA)Platform Project Space, (Brooklyn, NY), Bienvenue Steinberg & J (New York, NY) Hudson ValleyCenter for Contemporary Art (NY), CRG Gallery (New York, NY), PS122 (New York, NY), SharonArts Center (Peterborough, NH), Dunkers Kulturhus (Helsingberg, SE) and Gana Art Space(Seoul, Korea). Gildersleeve was a 2018-2019 recipient of The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Programin Brooklyn, NY. She has been twice awarded the NYFA Fellowship in Painting. She has been anArtist in Residence at Yaddo, the Millay Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the LiquitexInternational Research Residency in London, the Norman Bird Sanctuary in Newport RI andPouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland, Canada. Gildersleeve lives and works in Brooklyn,