Cheryl Goldsleger

Places of Origin, Points of Departure

OCTOBER 8 - NOVEMBER 14, 2020

OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 11AM-5PM

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C. Grimaldis Gallery is pleased to present Places of Origin, Points of Departure, a solo exhibition of paintings by Cheryl Goldsleger. In an exploration of the inescapable relationship individuals and societies have with place and location, Goldsleger’s intricate topographical paintings offer a unique vantage point for the viewer to understand the myriad forces at play upon the global landscape and its inhabitants.

Meteorologist Edward Lorenz, who coined the term the ‘butterfly effect’ stated, “Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.” Goldsleger’s paintings address these shifts in understanding and thinking about our place in an increasingly smaller, interconnected global society. As socio-economic events and natural phenomena unfold, she visualizes webs of connections in constant states of flux. Although not always apparent or linear, these connections create perceivable links between the positive and negative, the natural and synthetic, and the tranquil and turbulent.

Places of Origin, Points of Departure merges perception with proprioception - an awareness of our body in space. The paintings in this exhibition draw attention to remarkable changes in an evolving landscape, building tension and empathy as multiple perspectives coalesce. Within the compositions of the paintings, Goldsleger weaves together fragments of research, forming layers of accruing marks that must be selectively removed to reveal earlier formations underneath. And as these additions and subtractions build up, the paintings slowly expose a final image packed with visual movement and an understanding of chaotic connectivity.

Cheryl Goldsleger (b.1951, Philadelphia, PA) received her BFA from Philadelphia College of Art (now The University of the Arts) and her MFA from Washington University with additional study at Tyler School of Art’s program in Rome, Italy. She has an extensive exhibition record both nationally and abroad including the European Cultural Centre’s 2019 Venice Art Biennale (Italy), the Morris Museum of Art (GA), The National Academy of Sciences (DC), the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (NY), The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (GA), the Montclair Art Museum (NJ), the North Carolina Museum of Art (NC), The Institute of Contemporary Art (PA), and the Israel Museum (Israel). Her artwork is represented in important museum collections including the Albright-Knox Gallery (NY); the Brooklyn Museum (NY); The Fogg Museum at Harvard University; the Greenville County Museum (SC); the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University (NY); the High Museum (GA); The Israel Museum (Israel); the Museum of Modern Art, (NY); the New Orleans Museum (LA); the North Carolina Museum of Art (NC); the Tel Aviv Museum (Israel); and Yale University Art Gallery (CT); among other important public and private collections. She is a 2020 recipient of a Porter Fleming Foundation Artist Grant and has received two senior Artists Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Places of Origin, Points of Departure will be the artist’s third time exhibiting at C. Grimaldis Gallery.