Will Gabaldón (b. 1978 Belen, New Mexico, lives and works in Chicago) received his B.F.A. in painting from the University of New Mexico and his M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to moving to Chicago, he lived and worked in Brooklyn. While living in New York City, he was a painting assistant for Jeff Koons, founding member of the artist run exhibition space TSA Gallery and was actively exhibiting work in many group exhibitions in New York. He has held solo exhibitions at The Journal Gallery, New York; Galería Mascota, Mexico City; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles and Seoul; TSA Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; and Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Recent group exhibitions include Make Room, Los Angeles; Venus Over Manhattan, New York; Ackerman Clarke at NADA Miami, Florida; Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, New Mexico; He currently lives and paints in Chicago, Illinois with his wife and two daughters.
Will Gabaldón
WILL GABALDÓN paints from memory, drawing on landscapes once seen—fields, rivers, and quiet edges of the natural world—that linger in the mind long after the moment has passed. His verdant compositions emerge not as exact replicas, but as reflections shaped by time and feeling, where reality drifts into reverie. These scenes, suspended between the known and the remembered, are rendered with subtle palettes and deliberate, pared-down gestures. Central to Gabaldón’s work is a bold, rhythmic brushwork that carries the eye gently across the surface, animating the stillness with a quiet, pulsing life.