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Pat Goslee at DCAC

November 22, 2008

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Wilt
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Pat Goslee has a great new haircut
Pat Goslee has been a busy, busy girl this year; it seems to me that she's had a burst of energy that animates her new work and sort of cosmically pulls people to it. Her newest show opened last night at DCAC, which is a pretty cool place and a story in itself. DCAC (DC Arts Center) was founded almost 20 years ago as a response to the general lack of interest shown by the official DC arts industrial complex to local artists and has thrived since then in the heart of scene-y Adams Morgan largely due to the use of rent-free space owned by Herb White, himself a local DC arts institution who sadly died last year. (That last sentence grossly exceeds the international length standard.) But I digress.

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His Directorship B. Stanley
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Exhale
I first became enamored of Pat's encaustics years ago - they were dense, thick, ropey pieces involving strands of colored wax in a deconstructed woven effect. I even scored one at an indecently cheap price from a local benefit auction. Her current work is oil and mixed media and the layers have moved from the physically actual to the virtual - condensed physically on the surface of the canvas, but somehow deeper than before. Her color has always been beguiling and complex. In Pat's own words: "We tend to think of our bodies as solid things, but what are we other than energy? And what does that energy—that concrete space that is both here and not here—look like, feel like?" 
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Karen Topping, Gallery Director and her successor
 
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