From Roanoke, Virginia, Dorothy Gillespie creates installations of two and three dimensional work---paintings, collages, murals and sculpture with many of them "polycolored spirals of mylar, aluminum... Read full biography
From Roanoke, Virginia, Dorothy Gillespie creates installations of two and three dimensional work---paintings, collages, murals and sculpture with many of them "polycolored spirals of mylar, aluminum and steel that spring off walls and unfurl down staircases, creating a festival atmosphere.". Her... Read full biography
From Roanoke, Virginia, Dorothy Gillespie creates installations of two and three dimensional work---paintings, collages, murals and sculpture with many of them "polycolored spirals of mylar, aluminum and steel that spring off walls and unfurl down staircases, creating a festival atmosphere.". Her education includes the Maryland Institute of Art, the Art Students League and Atelier 17 of Stanley Hayter. In 1946, she married, and traveled extensively around the world due to her husband's... Read full biography
From Roanoke, Virginia, Dorothy Gillespie creates installations of two and three dimensional work---paintings, collages, murals and sculpture with many of them "polycolored spirals of mylar, aluminum and steel that spring off walls and unfurl down staircases, creating a festival atmosphere.". Her education includes the Maryland Institute of Art, the Art Students League and Atelier 17 of Stanley Hayter. In 1946, she married, and traveled extensively around the world due to her husband's engineering profession. She raised a family but continued her artwork, and increasingly experimented with abstraction and the combining of painting and sculpture. She sometimes hangs paintings together or back to back or fastens them together to make cubes.... Read full biography
From Roanoke, Virginia, Dorothy Gillespie creates installations of two and three dimensional work---paintings, collages, murals and sculpture with many of them "polycolored spirals of mylar, aluminum and steel that spring off walls and unfurl down staircases, creating a festival atmosphere.". Her education includes the Maryland Institute of Art, the Art Students League and Atelier 17 of Stanley Hayter. In 1946, she married, and traveled extensively around the world due to her husband's engineering profession. She raised a family but continued her artwork, and increasingly experimented with abstraction and the combining of painting and sculpture. She sometimes hangs paintings together or back to back or fastens them together to make cubes. In the mid 1960s, in her work including collages, she became one of the first to use mylar, a f... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (10)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Women Artists
1999
Barlow, Margaret
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions