Maizie Gilbert

Maizie GIlbert

Maizie Gilberts work has been included in exhibitions at the CCA Wattis Institute, The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, and Southern Exposure Gallery as well as other venues. Her photographs have most recently been included in an exhibition at the Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery in Portland, Oregon for an show called Bay Area Bazaar. Her work has been written about in Artweek, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Art Papers Magazine. She completed her MFA at the California College of the Arts in 1997 and currently lives and works in San Francisco.

These images describe pieces of a non-specific narrative. I am thinking about a way of feeling and making a story about it out of photographs. I am looking for, or looking at, a quiet still lingering and a kind of disassociation. It seems truer for the story to have gaps in it and not very much information about the ending. Like watching a movie in a foreign language without subtitles, apprehending the general story but escaping the details. Within this there may be moments of recognition, something unexpected, intimate and strange at the same time.

I am shooting with a 1970s era Polaroid land camera using high-speed black and white Polaroid film or re...

Education

MFA Photography, California College of Art, May 1997

BA Italian, San Francisco State University, January 1994

International Program, California State University Florence, Italy, September 1990 through May 1991

Selected Exhibitions

2006

THE GRAY AREA: UNCERTAIN IMAGES IN BAY AREA PHOTOGRAPHY
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA

2005

BAY AREA BAZAAR
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
Curated by Laurie Reid

2004

TRILLIUM PRESS, AN EXHIBITION OF RECENT PRINTS
SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

DISLOCATION: NEW BAY AREA PHOTOGRAPHY
James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

BO,S ARTS, VISUAL INTERPRETATIONS OF A SOFT DOG
Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA
Curated by Jamie Berger

2003/04

THE GRAY AREA:UNCERTAIN IMAGES IN BAY AREA PHOTOGRAPHY
CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
Curated by Matthew Higgs

2003

TOWN & COUNTRY San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Curated by Rupert Jenkins

2002

FRISCO
Spanganga, San Francisco, CA
Curated by Abner Nolan

2001

Group Exhibition
Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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