RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum has commissioned Kate Gilmore to debut a new video and site-specific sculpture that is a record of a private performance produced in the gallery space where it is on view from October 19, 2014, through April 5, 2015.

The video documents Gilmore’s systematic actions—lifting heavy logs, dipping them in paint, and rolling them onto a large white base.

Gilmore’s practice spans video, performance, sculpture, and photography. Curator Amy Smith-Stewart explains, “She is almost always the sole protagonist in her videos, which are recorded either privately in her studio or onsite, never rehearsed and only attempted once. She assumes the roles of characters who are subjected to situations on makeshift sets that act as the catalyst for a mélange of wacky plays on art and life.”

The monumental scale of the resulting sculpture is a testament to the incredible physicality of Gilmore’s work, reminiscent of the infinitives Richard Serra used to describe his own art process: “to drop,” “to roll,” “to splash.” Kate Gilmore’s exhibition is presented in conversation with Richard Serra's Bent Pipe Roll, 1968.

Kate Gilmore was born in 1975 in Washington, DC. She received her BA from Bates College and her MFA from School of Visual Arts. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at such institutions as MoCA Cleveland, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, PS1/MoMA, The Kitchen, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Public Art Fund Project (Bryant Park), Parasol Unit (London), Istanbul Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel, J. Paul Getty Museum, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and was seen in the 2010 Whitney Biennial. She is the recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Award for Artistic Excellence, the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance, the LMCC Workspace Residency, the Art Matters Award, the New York Foundation for The Arts Fellowship, the Rauschenberg Residency Award, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Residency. Her work is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Gilmore lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.