ABOUT

Kristin Gaudio Endsley’s creative practice encompasses the different disciplines she has learned and polished throughout her life.  She has cultivated an ability to create tension between the defined and undefined forms that characterize her work, and the expressive rhythms she skillfully portrays through measured intuition.

In her new series of paintings, Kristin is breaking away from the controlled nature of geometric shapes. She opens up to a critical dynamic of canvas, paint, and water; using spontaneous yet methodical dripping techniques to compose soft-edge and mutable images with a foundation in both her personal and the collective consciousness.  The drips break the tension on the canvas and leave their imprint.   Like an articulation of her thoughts, memories unfold onto the canvas, soaked.  The canvas themselves, primed and unprimed, function as symbolic analogies of our human vulnerability and readiness to be touched, as well as our durability and resilience we learn with time. 

By the virtue of insight, Kristin liberates the pieces of the rationality behind the traces, instead relying on the synchronicity found in the in-between of rehearsal and letting go.  And through water, she is able to sculpt motion into the canvas, capturing kinetic moments of experiences memorized in the body.  Unlocking those moments.   

Raised near the rolling shores of Chesapeake Bay, Kristin’s perspective was strongly shaped by the visual clash of industry and nature in and around the bustling American port town of Baltimore.  Descended from a long line of artists and craftsmen, Kristin has a family history in highly tactile expressions of creativity. She has traveled and studied extensively in Europe, Africa, and the United States where she honed her eye and abilities.

Kristin currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Washington D.C.

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Education

BA Virginia Tech University, Virginia, USA. 2004

Solo Exhibitions

March 2018, Calder Pieces, Salt and Sundry, Washington DC, USA

December 2017,  A Collection of Broken Things, Brief Assembly, Washington DC, USA

June 2016, Other Altars, Curious Duke Gallery, London, England

January 2013, Interiors and Exteriors, Long White Cloud Gallery, London, England

Group Exhibitions, Fairs, Open Studios

April 2023, Dumbo Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY, USA

January 2021, The Era of Change, Visionary Projects, NY, NY, USA

November 2020, Latela X Artsy Women In the Art’s,  Washington DC, USA

March 2016, Collage, Latela Gallery, Washington DC, USA

March 2016, Marrakech Biennale, Mint Works Collective, Marrakech, Morocco

March 2016, The Affordable Art Fair, Coco Gallery, NY, NY, USA

November 2015, Transformer Gallery Silent Auction, American University, Washington DC, USA

November 2015, Stoke Art Fair, Folly and Muse Gallery,  Munich, Germany

October 2015, The Affordable Art Fair, Folly and Muse Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

June 2014, Open Studios, Bow Arts, London, England

May 2014, Rise With Art, West Elm, London, England

May 2014, Rise Art At Grand Design Fair, London, England

March 2014, Oceana, Stitch Projects, Phillips Gallery, London, England

December 2013, The Present, Curious Duke Gallery, London, England

July 2013, Whitecross Street Festival, Live Street Painting, London, England

July 2013, The Art of Curiosity, Curious Duke Gallery, London, England

June 2013, Bow Arts Open Studios, Bow Arts Trust, Bow, London, England

May 2013, Grand Design Fair, London, England

April 2013, The Affordable Art Fair, Curious Duke Gallery, Bristol, England

February 2013, Young Masters, Curious Duke Gallery, London, England

June 2012, Open Studios, Bow Arts Trust, Bow, London, England

June 2012, International Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper 2012, 12 12 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, USA

March 2012, Patterns in Abstraction, Curious Duke Gallery, London, England

March 2012, Social Morphologies, The Lloyd Gill Gallery, Somerset, England

December 2011, VERITAS, In Vitro Gallery, Lincoln, England

November 2011, Something Blue, Cultivate Gallery, London, England

November 2011, The Other Art Fair, The Barge House, Southbank, London, England

October 2011,  Richmix on Vyner Street, London, England

Permanent Collections

The Conrad Hotel, Washington DC