ANOTHER WAY IN

TABLE OF CONTENTS

foreword

essays

sally gil: excavating the present_by julie h. reiss

making it up: rebekah goldstein_by maria porges

works

artist bios

Sally Gil & Rebekah Goldstein: Another Way In is

published to accompany an exhibition at Geary

Gallery, New York, from January 8 to February 7,

2015.

Artworks © Sally Gil and Rebekah Goldstein

Essays by Julie Reiss and Maria Porges

Photography by Bill Orcutt

Graphic Design by Shuya Gong

Exhibition hours:

Tuesday-Saturday: 12-6PM

Monday by appointment only

Jack Geary Gallery

185 Varick St

New York, NY 10014

www.jackgearycontemporary.com

FOREWORD

We are privileged to present Sally Gil and Rebekah Goldstein: Another Way In.

The two women artists, from opposite coasts of Brooklyn and San Francisco, are presented as small

solo shows within the gallery.

Though the two artists’ works are unrelated and the artists work in vastly different ways, they both

inspire an intense engagement with their art in order to discover many layers of influence and

imagery that slowly reveal and provide windows into their mesmerizing created worlds.

Improvisation and happy accidents are embraced by both artists; and through their deep knowledge

with their materials and openness to experimentation, the artists take collage, painting and works

on paper beyond their 2-D status to a multi-dimensional realm of wonder.

In Rebekah Goldstein’s paintings, both large scale and compact, one gets the sense of structures and

spaces that are held together by their own internal logic. Through layered applications of paint,

Goldstein investigates relationships between forms, planes of color, materiality, and gesture.

Overriding the abstract-representational binary, her works employ paint in various thicknesses and

white space to illustrate spaces suggestively real yet not fully literal. One can navigate these areas

without ever needing to fully settle in.

Sally Gil’s work, carefully constructed through cut out images of found objects, like old encyclopedias

and catalogues combined with her own drawings and paintings, create what seem like maps to other

worlds - to places with a hint of magic. Often starting with black paper mache, the built up and

textured works contain fantasy images alongside iconic historical references, connected through

recurring patterns. The artist plays a cat and mouse game, hiding and then peeling back layers to

rediscover things, in the process of creating the works.

We are thrilled that Sally Gil is for the first time activating the gallery’s project space with a living

mural-like work that will evolve throughout the exhibition and invite the public to witness its

creation.

Our deepest appreciation to the artists for sharing their powerful works and to the writers, Julie

Reiss and Maria Porges who contributed such thoughtful essays for the catalogue.

Dolly Bross Geary and Jack Geary

Sally Gil: Excavating the Present

Julie H. Reiss

Making It Up: Rebekah Goldstein

Maria Porges

WORKS

sally gil

A Way In, 2012-14

Collage, Acrylic, Casein, and Housepaint on Panel 17.5X 17.5

Indigenous Mass, 2012-14

Collage, Acrylic, Casein, and Housepaint on Paper 42X42

Training at Paren, 2012-14

Collage, Acrylic, Casein, and Housepaint on Paper 12X16

A Rowboat A Canoe, 2012-14

Collage, Acrylic, Casein, and Housepaint on Paper 10X28

Two Stellar Women, 2013-15

Collage, Acrylic, Casein, and Housepaint on Paper 58X60

Galaxy, 2012-14

Collage, Acrylic, Casein, and Housepaint on Paper 30X85

WORKS

rebekah goldstein

Vase Face, 2014

Oil and Acrylic on Canvas

65X52

I Wouldn’t Be Surprised, 2014

Oil and Acrylic on Canvas

65X52

Untitled Watercolor and gouache on paper

6x8

Untitled Watercolor, acrylic, gouache, and color pencil on paper 5X7

Untitled

Watercolor, acrylic, and gouache on paper 6X8

Untitled Acrylic and gouache on paper 5.5X9

Untitled

Acrylic, gouache, and color pencil on paper 7.5X11.5

Untitled Acrylic, gouache, and color pencil on paper 5.5X7.5

Untitled

Watercolor, acrylic, gouache, and color pencil on paper 9X11

Untitled Watercolor, acrylic, gouache, and color pencil on paper 7.5X11

Untitled Watercolor, acrylic, and gouache on paper

8X11.5

Untitled Acrylic and gouache on paper 7X11

Untitled

Acrylic, gouache, and color pencil on paper 5X7

Untitled Watercolor, acrylic, and gouache on paper 5.5X7

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Sally Gil, based in Brooklyn, received her BA

from UC at San Diego and her MFA from Hunter

College, CUNY. She has had solo exhibitions at

571 Projects, NY (2010), University of North

Carolina, Charlotte (2009), and Dean Bergen

Gallery, NYC (2007). Her work has been featured

in group exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum,

NY (1997); Art in Embassies (2013), and White

Columns, NYC (1999), among other venues. The

artist was a Fellow at Apexart (2013) and a

Visiting Artist at University of North Carolina,

Charlotte (2010). A selection of her work is held

in The Viewing Program, The Drawing Center,

NYC.

Rebekah Goldstein currently

resides in San Francisco and received

her BA from Sarah Lawrence College,

NY, and her MFA from California

College of The Arts, San Francisco. She

is represented by CULT/Aimee Friberg,

San Francisco. Solo exhibitions of her

work have been held at Cult Exhibitions

San Francisco (2014), 50 Fremont, San

Francisco (2014), and City Limits Gallery,

Oakland (2013). Her group exhibitions

include shows at The Battery, San

Francisco (2014); Alter Space Gallery,

San Francisco (2013); and the Berkley Art

Center, Berkley (2013). In addition to

residencies at The Atlantic Center for

The Arts, New Smyrna, Florida (2012),

CCAs New York Studio Program, AICAD

Studio, Brooklyn (2011), Goldstein

founded The Painting Salon in 2012, a

monthly forum that fosters conversation

about contemporary art practice.