CHERYL GOLDSLEGER

One of three works created for her exhibit Vast Scale-Intimate Space, curated by Shannon Morris for the Personal Structures: Identities 2019 exhibit held during the Venice Biennale, Goldsleger continues her exploration of geographical elements, the mathematical, and geometric forms. Repetitive motifs recall modern landscapes and reinforce our reliance on systems and networks.

Using a resist technique on a dark background, her mixed media paintings juxtapose the fluid topography of maps, the poetry of lines in space and the geometry of analytical systems. They embrace the real and the imagined while attempting to address aspects of how society is organized. Over the years different generational and cultural attitudes toward space have been important factors in my work, challenging me to understand diverse points of view and varied, often contradictory, cultural needs. Although never specific to a place or a source, my study of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and accurate 19th and early 20th century maps, which are visually compelling and historically provocative, form the underlying impetus of Unquiet Territories.

Working with structural imagery throughout her career, Goldsleger was invited to research in the NAS archive and then created a body of work based on the architecture of the historic National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, D.C. The completed works were exhibited there in spring 2013 in a solo exhibition entitled The NAS Project. The project features six canvasses, a sculpture, and six computer animations.

Cheryl Goldsleger was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and received her BFA from Philadelphia College of Art. While there she attended a summer semester at Tyler’s School of Art in Rome, Italy, and later received her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Actively exhibiting her work since the early 1980’s, Goldsleger had her first important solo exhibitions with Heath Gallery in Atlanta, GA in 1980 and with Bertha Urdang Gallery in New York City in 1981. Since then she has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad and is well represented in important museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; the Brooklyn Museum; Albright-Knox Art Gallery; The Fogg Museum; the High Museum; the Israel Museum; the New Orleans Museum; the North Carolina Museum of Art; Arkansas Art Center; Yale University Art Gallery; the Rhode Island School of Design Museum; and the Tel Aviv Museum among many other important public and private collections.