Drawing upon experience and memory and uniting past and present, Gail Biederman’s installations act as psychogeographic maps.

Recently, Biederman completed a residency in the Artists’ Alliance Rotating Studio Program.  She participated in the Bronx Museum’s AIM program and the Lower East Side Printshop’s Special Editions Residency.  She has presented solo exhibitions at Artspace, New Haven and the Fine Arts Gallery at Westchester Community College.  She also exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art, the Katonah Museum of Art, Islip Art Museum’s Carriage House, Smack Mellon, and Exit Art.  Her artwork has been reviewed in the New York Times and other publications.  For more information, visit www.gailbiederman.com.

Through mapping, I examine the connections between body, identity, and place.  Maps helps me realize where I am not only physically, but temporally and emotionally.  Creating mood as much as meaning, my maps reconstruct places and events and restore them as new experiences. 

I often begin with ordinary street maps of the places where I have lived and to which I remain connected.  Through my manipulations, the messiness of real life enters into these dry abstractions.  Sites are personalized.  The autobiographical and the geographical fuse, and the border between interior and exterior dissolves. 

Over time, my works have increasingly become more intuitive interpretations of places and events.  While still using a map as a point of departure, my pieces transform objective records, shaping them with imagination and personal experience.  By modifying maps and employing sensuous materials, I invite a viewer to travel to a new realm, an immersive space of flickering change.