Slipstream, a solo exhibition of works by Elizabeth Gilfilen

Winner of the Board Chair Grand Prize from the 72nd A•ONE Exhibition, Elizabeth Gilfilen has been included in group shows at Morgan Lehman Gallery, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and the Bronx Museum, among others. Her solo exhibition at Silvermine, Slipstream, opens on Sat., April 13 and runs through May 16.   An artist who works on paper and canvas, Gilfilen sees painting as “a spontaneous activity in which the material properties of paint—its slipperiness, opacity and viscosity—are put into an uneasy tension with legibility.” She begins with “a layering of mottled color that creates a light or staging.” She creates structure and hints at recognizable forms, leaving a trace of her presence as she moves “with and behind my brush.” Gilfilen takes full advantage of her medium and gives it full rein. “I think of these paintings as both mineral and pigment,” she writes, “rich, yet connected to the sopping liquidity of paint.” Gilfilen, who is based in New York, received her B.F.A from the College of D.A.A.P. at the University of Cincinnati and her M.F.A in Painting & Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. Reviews of her work have appeared in ArtSpiel, Two Coats of Paint, The New Criterion, The Boston Globe, The Newark Star-Ledger and The New York Times.