Elizabeth Glaessner

New York-based artist Elizabeth Glaessner (b. 1984, Palo Alto, USA) creates vibrant, multi-layered pictorial universes in her paintings. Cast in chromatic swathes of hot and cool, Glaessner’s amorphous figures, evocative poses, and surreal environments blend art historical reference and cultural observation into paintings that pose more questions than answers. Glaessner embraces improvisation in her work as a way to counter the authority of moral imagery or dogmatic narrative. Often beginning by pouring preliminary colors on a flat surface, Glaessner allows stochastic mark-making and loose, liquid shapes to form the underpinnings of scenes in which figures and landscapes are in constant metamorphosis, challenging the limits of interpretation.

Elizabeth Glaessner lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BA from Trinity University and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Recent solo exhibitions include Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, USA; PPOW, New York, USA; and Le Consortium, Dijon, France. Selected group exhibitions include FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA; Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, USA; Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA; and Make Room, Los Angeles, USA.