Gilda Pervin: Of Time and Memory

Gilda Pervin in her studio, photographed by Joshua Charow

October 5 – November 30, 2025

Curious Matter is delighted to announce our upcoming exhibition, GILDA PERVIN: Of Time and Memory, opening with a reception on Sunday, October 5, 2025, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm.

Over decades, Pervin has carried forward a deep engagement with material and texture. From cement—evoking the grit of her earliest architectural impressions—to humble found objects: grape stems, seed pods, plastic toy animals, glass or beads. What begins as the everyday becomes meditative and charged with memory and the passage of time.

Her source materials are transformed, coated, and unified with the use of black which slows recognition: objects first read as line, form, and texture. What she seeks is not immediacy but resonance. The works hold what she calls “a moment, and a sense of memory.”

Her artistic kin include Robert Rauschenberg, who blurred the line between art and life with found objects, and Louise Nevelson, whose black assemblages gave unity to disparate forms. More surprisingly, Agnes Martin, whose controlled, meditative grids and stripes at first seem distant from her own organic and intuitive forms, yet they share a clarity and discipline that underpins Pervin’s material density.

What she asks of the viewer is simple and direct: to notice. Whether positively or negatively, she wants the work to elicit feeling. Her art, she says with disarming candor, is ‘work that happens from being human and being alive—can’t argue with that.’”

Gilda Pervin: Of Time and Memory will be on view through November 30, 2025. We invite you to join us at the opening reception and to spend time with this remarkable body of work.