South Street Gallery | Greenport, NY | Benefit for the North Fork Environmental Council
PAFA Alumni Gallery | Philadelphia, PA | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Philadelphia, PA | received Sandra Karlin Award
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Asheville Art Museum | North Carolina | curated by Nancy Sokolove | figurative exhibition | two paintings
An Interview with Elizabeth Wilson | The Art Room | Artist Interviews & Discussion | Taryn Day
“Manayunk Window View, Overcast”, 58 x 40 inches, oil on linen, 1992
Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont College – Rosemont, PA
Seraphin Gallery announces the opening of “A Perfect Luminosity”, a solo exhibition featuring works by Elizabeth Wilson. A striking feature of Wilson’s paintings is the way air, land and sea enhance each other. Wilson’s work plays with a type of mark making which is abstract, and yet from a distance it resolves any doubt the viewer may have about what is being seen. In the mid nineties, Elizabeth Wilson started frequenting the locals of Dunstanburgh and Cambridge, among others. She chose England for its legendary overcast skies that obscure the sun creating the silvery cast of the landscape. These atmospheric conditions create many of the effects that Wilson seeks in her landscape paintings. For Elizabeth Wilson, luminosity is an event in painting. Its moments are rare and painters have been trying to capture its effects for centuries. Luminosity is when color and tone come together in such a way that light in a given scene becomes central to motif. The juxtaposition of pictorial counter balance is pleasing to the eye. She shares in the tradition of Constable and Corot, whose works affirm devotion toward a proper luminosity.