VALLEY NEWS
In Showing Mystery of the Form, and Abstract Landscape Painter Raises Issues
By Alex Hanson, Valley News, February 2012
Allison Gildersleeve has developed a mastery of the form, balancing her paintings on the line between concrete depiction and guazy perception.
Gildersleeve isn’t shy about using colors that walk the border of the natural world, or that don’t precisely correspond to the substances she’s trying to evoke. She layers her paintings with earthy tones, brown, black, green and dark purple, then uses a final color scheme to create a sense of movement and surface tension.
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