Artist Caitlin Gill
Caitlin Gill is a mixed media artist living in Baltimore, Maryland. She has a B. A in Drawing and Painting from Towson University and an MFA in Curatorial Practice and Art Criticism from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Gill uses printmaking, sculpting, drawing, painting, collage, and fiber to create artwork that explores ideas of identity, femininity, and domesticity.
Gill’s work examines the patriarchy, the male gaze and gender through animal and insect portraits. The juxtaposition between lace, pressed flowers, and other materials with the foreground imagery of birds and bugs acts as a dialogue surrounding how the female identifying artist feels she must be perceived by society versus her experience performing gender. Using traditional craft materials and skills such as sewing, felting, crocheting, ceramics, scrapbook paper, doilies, stencils, and stamps, Gill also explores the divergence between craft and fine art and the implicit misogyny within the distinction between the two. Her work is labor intensive and acknowledges the invisibility of female labor in the home and in marriage and the lack of value inferred in “women’s work.” By Evoking ideas of discomfort and repulsion, she encourages viewers to engage in the inherent violence exercised in the construct of the feminine.
Caitlin Gill has showcased her work in the past Clio Art Fair 16th edition in May 2-5, 2024. Here is our short interview with the artist!
Caitlin, can you please describe your art in four words?
interdisciplinary, Feminist, textured, raw
What inspires your art?
The natural world
How would you describe your experience at Clio Art Fair?
My experience at Clio Art Fair was overwhelmingly positive. Everyone was super kind - and the collection of work and artists exhibited was diverse and eclectic. The events and hosted by the event were well attended and dynamic programmatically.
Caitlin Gill, Portrait IV, 2023
44 x 33 in
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