Elizabeth Whalley
Elizabeth Whalley
July 15 - November 19, 2014
(Please note date change - exhibit now ends on Nov. 19)
Durst Lobby Gallery
733 Third Avenue (at 46th Street)
New York, NY
Elizabeth Whalley is a Canadian artist based in Morin Heights, Quebec and New York. She employs traditional and experimental media for projects that evolve in response to site, materials, and technologies. She shows regularly in the New York and Montreal areas and has participated in collaborative and interactive events including projects at Artspace, New Haven, CT, The MALL, Minneapolis, MN; old media festival, Sackville, New Brunswick and Morin Heights, Quebec; Proteus Gowanus, Conflux, Flux Factory, and PIMA in New York. She received her MFA from Brooklyn College after studies at Concordia University, Montreal, and has taught at Adelphi University, UC Davis, Haverford College, Pratt Institute, Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, and Brooklyn College.
Artist Statement:
In my landscape paintings I explore aspects of the intersection of man and nature. Sometimes I reference the history of landscape painting, quoting from traditional genres such as the Hudson River school. Sometimes I rely on my own observations of nature in the urban setting, painting weeds in the neglected locations where they have taken hold. The interplay of the built environment and the natural world is often problematic but also often surprisingly beautiful.
July 15 - November 19, 2014
(Please note date change - exhibit now ends on Nov. 19)
Durst Lobby Gallery
733 Third Avenue (at 46th Street)
New York, NY
Elizabeth Whalley is a Canadian artist based in Morin Heights, Quebec and New York. She employs traditional and experimental media for projects that evolve in response to site, materials, and technologies. She shows regularly in the New York and Montreal areas and has participated in collaborative and interactive events including projects at Artspace, New Haven, CT, The MALL, Minneapolis, MN; old media festival, Sackville, New Brunswick and Morin Heights, Quebec; Proteus Gowanus, Conflux, Flux Factory, and PIMA in New York. She received her MFA from Brooklyn College after studies at Concordia University, Montreal, and has taught at Adelphi University, UC Davis, Haverford College, Pratt Institute, Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, and Brooklyn College.
Artist Statement:
In my landscape paintings I explore aspects of the intersection of man and nature. Sometimes I reference the history of landscape painting, quoting from traditional genres such as the Hudson River school. Sometimes I rely on my own observations of nature in the urban setting, painting weeds in the neglected locations where they have taken hold. The interplay of the built environment and the natural world is often problematic but also often surprisingly beautiful.
