In this show the artist visualizes a reality of Mexico painted from a distant place through a re-signification of western painting symbols, creating a particular fiction. In the midst of the twenty-first century, Gisholt evokes historic references with his paintings: he remembers Goya by painting the same themes, he inserts the light bulb from Picasso’s Guernica using it as a symbol of the symbol. By these means, Gisholt activates the viewer’s memory, causing a fantasy. Although his work draws inspiration from Mexico’s reality, his pictorial language is not folkloristic; he re-signifies each symbol into a new context to visualize a human reality that he finds in his country. His vision is anything but conservative. He uses painting to question the limits of painting itself. He summons its possibilities; extending his realm of expression, with clustered compositions, with strident and tropical colors next to grey and urban hues, with re-interpreted topics and symbols, with contrasting pictorial trends within the same work.
EDUCATION
2000 MFA: Painting / Bastan University, Bastan, MA
1996 BFA: Painting / Florida International University, Miami. Fl
1991 – 1994 Academia de San Carlos / Mexico CitySOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Ravines of Stairs / RECINTO PROJECT-ROOM, Mexico City
2010 Ceremonies of Mud / University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
2008 The Pilgrimage / The Lincoln Building, Waltham, MA
2004 Monks, Warriors and Revolutions / The Richard and Dolly Moas Gallery, Purchase, NY
2003 From the Moon to the People / Espacio Arte Contemporáneo CBM, Mexico City
2002 Flowers for a Revolution / George Shermon Gallery, Boston, MA
Conversations in the Studio / Fort Point Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2001 Storms and interiors / Galería Mano, Mexico City
1994 Recent Work / Centro Cultural Tajín. Mexico City
GROUP EXHIBITlONS
2010 Reunited / Denis Bibro Fine Art, New York. NY
2010 Modern and Contemporary Art / Galería Navarra-Valdez, Valle de Bravo, Mexico
2009 Tradition-Invenlion: 5 Emerging Artists / Morist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
2008 Winter Solstice / The Lincoln Building. Waltham. MA
2007 Summer Invitational / Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
The South Press Print Show / The Corillon Gallery, Farth Warth TX
On Paper / Northern Essex Community College, Hoverhill, MA
2006 Spot On / Rose Ad Museum, Wolthom, MA
2005 Boston Printmakers Biennale / 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 Summer Surprise / Nielsen Gollery, Boston, MA
Small Paintings / Groton Public library, Groton, MA
2002 Award Winning Alumni / George Sherman Gallery, Boston University, MA
Faculty Exhibition / Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 New Talent / Glassmountain Gollery, Bantom, C T
MFA Thesis Exhibition / 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
Series de Arte Nuevo / Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1999 Bon Fire / Boston Universlty, MA
The New Romantics / Boston University, Boston, MA
ACADEMIC AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007–2008 Visiting Critic / Boston University Graduate Program. Boston. MA
2006–2010 Visiting Critic / Boston University Graduate Program. Boston, MA
2004–2006 Artist-Residence: Printmaking, Pointing, Drawing / Brandeis University MA
2005 Visiting Critic / Purchase College (SUNY) Purchase, NY
Visiting Critic / Boston University Graduate Program, Boston, MA
2002–2004 Artist-in-Residence / Brandeis University, Waltham. MA
2001–2004 Teaching Associate / Graduate Painting Program, University Boston, MA
2001 Intern / Peggy Guggenheim Collection / Venice, Italy
PUBLICATIONS
2010 Ravines of Stairs / Federico Márquez Padilla / Exhibition catalogue, REClNTO EDITORIAL, Mexico City.
2010 The grey Skeleton / Dushko Petrovich / Exhibition colologue, RECINTO EDITORIAl. Mexico City
2010 Ceremonies of Mud / George Kinghorn / Exhibition essay, University of Maine, Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
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