Chelsea Gilmore is a Northern California based painter and instructor.
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.
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.