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