Gladstone Gallery is pleased to present Decline & Glory, an exhibition of new paintings by Jill Mulleady, the artist’s first with the gallery. Activating the gallery’s existing architecture, a Neoclassical-inspired late nineteenth-century Maison Bruxelloise, Mulleady stages a sequence of paintings en enfilade, with implied narratives threading between the works and the rooms of the installation. In one work, Gardens of the Blind, a chiaroscuro figure appears amidst the turbulent forces of a whirlwind and a burning landscape. The same figure is seen again in the yellow interior of 18 Rue Souveraine 1050, where she seems to have aged and is now illuminated by another fire – a psychic recurrence, or unextinguished memory. Still lifes of flowers mark the inexorable passage of time, with the same bouquet observed in different moments of decay (A Thought that Never Changes Remains a Stupid Lie). Here, a traditional motif allegorizes the seductive means by which power infiltrates our lives. Meanwhile, the Marquis de Sade sits in the solitary confinement of his prison cell, as if suspended in time between one sentence and another. Putting art historical influences in communication with fiction, Mulleady’s paintings invite the viewer to wander between shifting temporalities and the rooms and floors of the house where they are installed.