Abstract
Mexican born painter, Alfredo Gisholt, presents his large, gestural abstract paintings. In this solo show, as well as smaller studies from the “Night Studio” series.
Alfredo Gisholt describes himself as a “studio painter”, meaning this is where he does his work, but the studio is also what he paints. The accumulated artifacts from his native Mexico, small religious icons, skulls, books, the plants that line his studio windows, and of course the utilitarian tools of his trade – palettes, brushes, paint itself, and the ubiquitous trash can. But “the studio” is also a metaphorical space. It is the space for creative thought, the arena for action, the container for contemplation, and the chamber for wrestling with demons. Alfredo Gisholt begins each session in the studio by making a sketch from direct observation in small notebooks. This daily devotion then generates enormous, muscular, and expressive paintings that let go of the more literally representational aspects of the drawings and reach boldly into that metaphorical space of the mind. In so doing, he also confronts the tumult, exuberance, danger, complexity and wonder of the larger world beyond the studio walls.