Dear Friends, Today we celebrate my mother's "100th birthday" and I thought sharing photos of her with her art would be a fitting tribute to her life and accomplishments. I hope you enjoy the photos! Warm regards, Gary

“The thing I wanted most in being an artist was to find my center - the thumbprint that makes my art mine.” "I didn't want to jump on any bandwagons that other people were on. I wanted my own signature. I wanted it to come from inside, instead of outside, of me." Dorothy Gillespie

Gillespie works are magnetic. "It draws people in...they want to touch it, interact with it".

"The first time I walked into Dorothy Gillespie's studio in Manhattan, I felt like I was inside a music box. So much color, so much fun"

"I am a classical painter. I worked very hard to become an abstract artist" Dorothy Gillespie

"Her work is upbeat and lively," "There's a spirited quality to her work which reflects her kind and optimistic nature.

"The Rockefeller Center project was the most exciting thing I ever did" Dorothy Gillespie 

The joy Dorothy Gillespie brings to others with her work is apparent the moment you enter her studio. Art can deal with the tragic and with the joyful. Gillespie has chosen the joyful, which is often the more difficult path.

"You can't make metal do something it won't do, art is like life. You can't control it. Certain things are just going to happen." Dorothy Gillespie

"Dorothy Gillespie captures moments of change in her sculpture. Each work is a free-spirited conception, pulsating with life and color".

"I like to think that I paint joyfully" Dorothy Gillespie

The joy Dorothy Gillespie brings to others with her work is apparent the moment you enter her studio. Art can deal with the tragic and with the joyful. Gillespie has chosen the joyful, which is often the more difficult path."

"As an artist, Gillespie allows her imagination and sensibilities free reign to wander where and how they will".

“I wanted to be the kind of artist whose work wasn’t dated. I wanted to have my own way of working so that I could have it for the rest of my life." Dorothy Gillespie

"I never completely discard any artistic idea. I just enlarge on it, I use ideas and technique like you use a screwdriver - you don't throw it away just because you don't use it every day." Dorothy Gillespie

"Whether a screenprint or poster, her graphic work typically reproduces abstract fields of luminous, glowing color, often incorporating gold or silver foil". Francis Martin

“I love having people be involved in the art. It intrudes on the viewer’s space. If I could make it sing or have an aroma, I would. To touch something in people is a great gift.” Dorothy Gillespie

"I hope that the visual, philosophical statement of my work is the miracle of eternal change, the moment of motion, the knowledge that nothing remains the same for even a second." Dorothy Gillespie

"I think being an artist is the most wonderful thing in the world" Dorothy Gillespie

"Her work is upbeat and lively, There is a spirited quality to her work which reflects her kind and optimistic nature."

Francis Martin said of my mother “She is paper, and paper is Gillespie

"When I have a one-person show, it's really a group show" Dorothy Gillespi e

" I love color, it goes back to the things I saw as a child- a Christmas tree, a ball bouncing, a kite. Dorothy Gillespie

"The sculptures are sea creatures, dancers, polychromed and playful spiders, meteorites, chrysanthemums, sculptures, cartoon octopuses plus extra legs."

"It’s very daring, and gets to me somewhere where nothing got to me before," Dorothy Gillespie

"Materials, ribbons, thread along with textures are special to me and it is especially exciting to make metal look and feel like a soft material." Dorothy Gillespie

"Gillespie paintings and sculptural objects grow out of a concern with color and space relationships."

"Since I seem to pull forward things from my childhood, I''m sure that learning to embroider as a child, along with knitting and crocheting triggered visual images in my mind that added to the vision created by paint and clay at that time." Dorothy Gillespie

The joy Dorothy Gillespie brings to others with her work is apparent the moment you enter her studio. Art can deal with the tragic and with the joyful. Gillespie has chosen the joyful, which is often the more difficult path.

"I attempt to portray imminent movement and energy, manipulating colors and materials available today so that the eye can carry some mystical message to the soul." Dorothy Gillespie

One visitor compared entering Dorothy Gillespie's studio to the experience of watching the classic film Wizard of Oz. After leaving the greyness of the city you open the studio door and everything turns to bold and exciting colors

I realize that when I paint I am seeing something no human eyes have seen before. That's creating. I think how Rembrant must have felt".

Dorothy Gillespie captures moments of change in her sculpture. Each work is a free-spirited conception, pulsating with life and color.