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Gillespie, Blind Crow	Gillespie, Float and Scamper

Oscar Gillespie
Summer Artist-in-Residence
Residency: July 2 - August 5, 2010
Lecture & Reception: July 15, 6 - 7:30pm
lecture open to the public
Exhibition: August 6 - September 4, 2010
Opening Reception: First Friday Gallery Walk, August 6, 6-10pm

Please help us welcome our Summer 2010 Artist-In-Residence, Oscar Gillespie! Gillespie will begin his residency in Artspace’s Gallery 1 in early July and continue through August 5. His studio will be open to the public throughout the month of July, allowing visitors to experience the creative process. Visitors will have the opportunity to see his work develop over the course of the residency.

For this residency, Gillespie will continue working on a series of engravings inspired by a long-standing fascination with marginalia – the odd and often out of character notes and illustrations in the margins of manuscripts, musical scores, drafts of poetry, and works of art. Gillespie notes, “the appeal of odd combinations is such that this has become central to my current imagination and working method as an artist. I work through a process of imposition and resolution, impulse and sensitivity. Starting with a seed, such as the sketch of a bird or animal or a peculiar shape, I impose art historical and natural references with fragments of things from life and my working environment until I have found something visually engaging and enigmatic.”

Gillespie’s exhibition will be comprised of many works created during his Artspace residency. It will open with the First Friday Gallery Walk on August 6, 6 -10pm and continue through September 4.

Gillespie is a Professor in the Department of Art at Bradley University, Peoria, IL. He is noted for his expertise in monotypes and in intaglio, especially metal-plate engravings. His work has been included in more than 300 solo, invitational, and juried exhibitions. His prints and drawings may be found in more than 2000 private and public collections, including the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Boston, MA; the Kleven Print Collection, Bemidji, MN; the Kemper Group Collection, Chicago, IL; the Lauren Rogers Museum, Laurel, MI; the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO; the New York Public Library, NY; the Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Australia; the National Museum of Posnan, Poland; and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France.

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