Trails Over Twilight
by Carrie Gillen
Location: Pre-security, Lower Level A Concourse Wall
Carrie Gillen has been making stretched fabric paintings for over 10 years. The work started as an exploration of material and form in which paint application was an expressive response to the folds created by the wrapped fabric. In this most recent body of work Gillen shifts focus from responding to the sculptural form, and instead uses the fabric as a foil to further express energy and tension through the distortion of the composition. Perhaps the most literal aspect of Trails over Twilight is its title, but the work is a reference to landscape, environment, and movement. It is inspired by a certain vastness we experience during travel, and a notion about our small places in an infinite world.
About the Artist: Carrie Gillen
Carrie Gillen is a St. Louis based installation Artist, sculptor, scenic designer, and educator. She received her B.A. from Loyola University in New Orleans and her MFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Gillen is the recipient of the SIUE Jose Jimenez Public Art Award and the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis Artist Support Grant. She regularly exhibits locally and nationally. Gillen is currently a member of Intersect STL a non-profit studio, gallery, and classroom supporting the south side neighborhoods of St. Louis.
To learn more, visit: www.carriegillen.com.
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