Published reviews
“The largest of the alcove spaces contains the work of Shaun Gilmore. Whether/Weather is a series of drawings of specific locations represented by concentric linear elements, as in a topographical map. Gilmore combines these drawn elements with brilliant splashes of color, confined to vibrant abstracted forms within the composition, that contrast sharply with the mostly monochromatic and black- and -white pieces by the other participating artists. The linear elementsfrom the drawings inspired a series of newspaper wrapped wire sculptures and a hanging curtain composed of a series of strung together cut out shapes made from common recycled materials.”
Michael Abatemarco [Review in Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican. November 11-17, 2016]
Alcoves 16/17 #5, The New Mexico Museum of Art
“Don’t miss this—it runs to December 1. '“It” being the current group show at Eight Modern, which features work by Michelle Cooke,Lora Fosberg, and Shaun Gilmore. An initial sense of serendipity in the gallery’s choice of artists for the show gives way in time to awareness of a shared aesthetic that links this unlikely ensemble. That aesthetic is based on a graphic sensibility and an eye for understatement common to three artists whose works are—and look—very different from one another.—Gilmore’s placement of colored collage strips on the drawings belies their aereal perspective and broadens topography’s reference to the elevation contours of a relief map to encompass a figurative connotation embracing the local culture as well. Works like Early Horizon (2006), North of Acoma Pueblo (2010), and The Wave of Sandia (remembered) (2010) imbue the entire series with a sense of cryptic narrative quietly charged with elements of myth and nostalgia.”
Richard Tobin [Review in THE Magazine, November 2011]Michelle Cooke, Lora Fosberg and Shaun Gilmore, EIGHT MODERN,
Santa Fe
“Lao Tzu’s admonition on mystery, “to darken the darkness, that is the gate of all wonder.” Such visual wonder is thematic in ‘Alcoves 16/17.” the fifth of seven shows in a series that focuses on some of the region’s best, though perhaps previously underappreciated artists. Shaun Gilmore, a dancer turned sculptor, and Signe Stuart, long known in Santa Fe for elegant explorations of ethereality, explore the activation of space through linear elements. Gilmore’s free-standing sculptures twist and turn in the air, schematically defining volumes, like a 3D Brice Marden drawing, or exoskeletons of Dubuffet’s sculptural forms.”
Jon Carver [Review in Visual Art Source, February 7, 2017]
Alcoves 16/17 #5, The New Mexico Museum of Art
“Gilmore’s two ‘horizon’ drawings are a pleasant shift from her earlier abstract paintings. — the result, what looks like a topographical map with bits of color locating high plateaus,can be seen as a mapping of one’s art practice within a larger territory. It’s an interesting visual strategy of appropriation and insertion—one that allows Gilmore to engage with the landscape in which she lives and travels at the same time that it acknowledges that art is not immaculately conceived (we are all influenced by other art and artists)—as well as a desire for connection, and a placing of oneself in a historical narrative.”
Harmony Hammond [Review in The Albuquerque Journal North, December 11, 2009]
The Wonder Salon, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe