BETH GILFILEN

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Beth Gilfilen is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her paintings are rooted in the language of abstraction and are built through a generative process of layering, negating and remaking. At once meditative and spontaneous, she often employs an exploratory line that seems to stem directly from the nervous system. Visual cues and saturated color inform the notational marks, echoing the sounds, structures and rhythms of the natural world. Developed over extended periods of time, a topography of movements is woven into dense, atmospheric spaces. 

Recent solo exhibitions include Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2025; Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, 2024 and Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2023. Group exhibitions include Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY; Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; the Bronx Museum, NY and Equity Gallery, New York, NY among others.

Residencies include The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, Yaddo, The Golden Foundation for the Arts and The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop SIP Fellowship. Beth received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and her BFA from the University of Cincinnati.