Ghost Bloom, 2024, Oil on linen, 40 x 42 inches
Reynolds Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Cricket Fix, a solo exhibition of all new paintings by Beth Gilfilen. The exhibition opens on Thursday, July 17, 2025 with a public reception from 4-6pm at our Libbie Avenue location. The show runs through September 19.
In Cricket Fix, Gilfilen offers a contemplative body of work that moves with intuitive energy. Working on unprimed linen and toned grounds, Gilfilen responds instinctively to material and moment, layering gestural marks and overlapping lines in oil and oil stick that echo biological entanglements. The compositions emerge from a process that is both attentive and impulsive, where the physical act of mark-making becomes a response to ambient sound and environment. Her hanging forms create careful tension as they hang and weave amongst the negative space of their backgrounds. With this exciting new body of work, Gilfilen exhibits an intersection of the irregular and the rhythmic, inviting viewers to tune in to these enveloping pieces and take cues from the nature around them.
May Song, 2025, Oil on linen, 40 x 30 inches
Lately, I have been seeking out spaces that are quiet and allow the rhythms of nature to seep in. The title of this exhibition, “Cricket Fix,” alludes to the significance that the sounds of the natural world have on my work. Aural impressions collide with the assertion and dissolution of form. With each mark, I pay attention, and associations between insect, root and circulatory systems arise. I allow form to give way to spontaneous decision making guided by the murmurs and hums around me. I find this an electrifying process, and its residue serves as an antidote to the numbing of our contemporary world.
– Beth Gilfilen, 2025
Beth Gilfilen (b.1974, Cincinnati, OH) is a painter based in Brooklyn, NY. Her works on paper and canvas often employ an exploratory line that seems to extend directly from the nervous system. Form is suggested through repetition and the mark exists in a primary relationship to the ground. In these recent works she responds to neutral, unprimed linen and toned color with overlapping shapes that tend to twist and hang in space.
Gilfilen has had solo exhibitions at Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT; Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA; The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ; Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ and John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at TW Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia; Equity Gallery, New York, NY; Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY; Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT and the Bronx Museum, NY, among others. Selected artist residencies include The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Yaddo, The Golden Foundation for the Arts, and The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. She will attend the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts in Greece this August. Reviews of her work have been featured in ArtSpiel, Two Coats of Paint, The New Criterion, The Boston Globe, The Newark Star-Ledger and The New York Times. Gilfilen received her BFA from the University of Cincinnati, OH and her MFA in Painting & Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.