Alison Hildreth’s recent paintings reflect a deep engagement with the unseen forces that shape perception, memory, and the subconscious. Her layered compositions suggest vast, internal landscapes—at once intimate and cosmic. Through sweeping gestures, delicate veils of pigment, and an intuitive sense of structure, her work evokes the passage of time and the shifting contours of thought. There’s a sense of quiet persistence in the surfaces she builds—like sediment or starlight—where the visible and invisible intermingle.

While rooted in abstraction, Hildreth’s paintings carry the gravity of lived experience and the poetics of ambiguity. Organic forms drift across darkened grounds, hinting at maps, constellations, or the fragments of forgotten narratives. Her palette is often muted, drawing the viewer in rather than calling attention to itself, allowing space for contemplation. These works do not offer easy conclusions—they invite a kind of slow looking, a willingness to wander into the unknown.