Elizabeth Neel

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Dweller in the Oxbow, 2014

Long Lake Estates

Born in Vermont in 1975, Elizabeth Neel is the granddaughter of bohemian portrait painter Alice Neel.  She has been compared to Willem de Kooning for her sumptuous use of paint, but has developed a unique form of representation. At first, the gestural brushstrokes and conspicuously blank spaces of Elizabeth Neel’s paintings appear to be the result of layered or collaged abstraction. But upon closer look, her dripped and built-up surfaces tackle dark subjects like plane crashes and dog fights, decomposition and decay—often based on source material from the world around us, including images culled from the internet and television.

Links

Elizabeth Neel Interview

Solo exhibitions at

  • Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York (2013)

  • Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects (2012)

  • Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (2011)

  • Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY (2010)

  •  Recent group exhibitions include

  • STUDIOLO, Zurich

  • Cluj Museum, Cluj, Romania; Prague Biennial 5

  • Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

  • Harris Lieberman, New York

  • Mother’s Tank Station, Dublin