News
December 2022
Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine – Exhibition Profile
December 2022 issue: Solo Exhibition “Elizabeth Wilson: Spirit of Place”, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Alttona (September 3 – December 4, 2022).
Fine Art Connoisseur:
”On view at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art are 30 luminous, often poetic landscapes by the Philadelphia-based painter Elizabeth Wilson. She has titled her exhibition ‘Spirit of Place’ because it traces her life over the past two decades through travel, via both direct experience and memory. Significant during the pandemic lockdown were her cherished recollections of Long Island’s North Fork and the Roman Campagna”.
2022
101 Artists | Selections from the Fred Danziger collection of Contemporary Art
Buckam Gallery | Flint, Michgan | September 23 – October 29, 2022
STORIES FROM PAFA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | School | Musuem
STORIES FROM PAFA | SOLO MUSUEM EXHIBIT OF Elizabeth Wilson (CERTIFICATE ’84): SPIRIT OF PLACE | September 1, 2022
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art | Altoona, PA
Jewish Exponent (newspaper)
Jewish Exponent Interview / Profile: Landscape Artist Elizabeth Wilson made the most of Pandemic created Free Time – Gall Sigler, Jewish Exponent (page 3, September 1, 2022)
2022
“Elizabeth Wilson: Spirit of Place” – Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art | Altoona
Solo Exhibition | Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art | September 2 – December 4, 2022
2022
PAFA FELLOWSHIP VIRTUAL GALLERY EXHIBITION May/June 2022
Online virtual PAFA Fellowship Exhibition includes six PAFA alumni: Christina Bothwell (glass/ceramic), Taryn Day (painter), Kate Javens (painter), Diana Lehr (multi media/video), Robert Simon (sculptor), Elizabeth Wilson (painter). Artists statements and bio’s appear on each artist page, above and below their images. Thumbnails open up to larger images/videos. Diana Lehr has voice memos that accompany her amazing videos.
Thanks to Barbara Sosson, president of the PAFA Fellowship for inviting me to curate this show. I was tasked with choosing five artists I overlapped with while attending the Academy. It was a tough decision narrowing down the choices….so many deserving artists.
LINK TO VIEW EXHIBITION: https://www.fellowshipgallery.org/copy-of-march-april-2022-show
2022
Academy Generations – From the 1930’s to 2022: Academy Artists at Work
Fred Danziger Collection of Selected Works by 20th & 21st Century Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Students, Alumni, Teachers
Exhibition runs April 21 through June 26, 2022 PAFA Artists
2021
101 Artists: Selections from the Fred Danziger Collection of Contemporary Art
Traveling Exhibition beginning January 2021: Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Loretto, PA); Main Line Center for the Arts (Haverford, PA); Gallery 222 (Malvern, PA). This exhibition will travel to other venues into 2022
2019
Refugee Benefit Art Show – Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral
(Exhibition to benefit UNHCR Lifeline Program for Syrian Refugee families in Jordan) / curated by Jim Victor
July 2-16, 2018
Painting in a Birthplace of Visual Language | with Elizabeth Wilson | JSS in Civita | July 2-16, 2018
It is with great honor to have been invited to teach in Italy this summer at the prestigious JSS in Civita.
Please join me for two weeks to explore and paint in the extraordinary beauty of the Roman Campana in the town of Civita Castellana, just north of Rome. Become part of the JSS Community.
For information, click here.
November 2017
House & Garden Magazine
House & Garden Magazine (UK) Profile (November 2017 Issue)
“The Art Edit: Elizabeth Wilson is a Philadelphia based painter best known for her intimate and dramatic landscapes of the British Isles. Elizabeth studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and has an extensive exhibition history. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States and the UK”.
2018
Acquisition – Pennsylvania Convention Center Art, Philadelphia
“Memorial Day Picnic“, 40 x 60 inches, oil on linen, 1991-1992
click for PCCArts Video & Description
September 10 & 11, 2015
Workshop: Art Students League of New York
Gouache Landscape in the Studio – September 10 & 11, 2015
September 2 - 29, 2015
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2015 — “3” An Exhibition by 3 PAFA Alumn
“3” An Exhibition by 3 PAFA Alumn (curated by Barbara Sosson)
• Carolyn Louise Newhouse • Barbara Sosson • Elizabeth Wilson •
Da Vinci Art Alliance • Philadelphia
Reception: Wednesday, September 2 5-8pm
Spring 2015
Recent gallery affiliations
Morpeth Contemporary – Hopewell, NJ
The South Street Gallery – Greenport, NY
June 2015
Recent acquisition
“Scrabble”, 70 x 50 inches, oil on linen, 1995-1996
private collection – Merion Station, PA
December 2014 - January 2015
Square Foot Art Basel Miami Redux
Projects Gallery | Miami, FL | three paintings
November 2014
Film by John Thornton – “Marriage of Land and Sky” – Elizabeth Wilson
Film by John Thornton – Interview & profile: solo exhibition “Terrain”, Elizabeth Wilson
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia | November 2014
November 2 - 23, 2014
solo exhibition – Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia
Elizabeth Wilson “Terrain” November 2 – 23, 2014
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia
November 2014
press release – Rosenfeld Gallery | solo exhibition: Elizabeth Wilson
Press Release | Roseneld Gallery, Philadelphia | Elizabeth Wilson “Terrain” | November 2014
October 2014
Interview by Elana Hagler | Painting Perceptions “Intuition and Intention: An Interview with Elizabeth Wilson”
Intuition and Intention: An Interview with Elizabeth Wilson | Painting Perceptions | Elana Hagler
October 18, 2014
PAFA Benefit Auction | Saturday, October 18
PAFA BENEFIT AUCTION – Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Saturday, October 18, 2014 | 6:00 – 8:00 pm
June 14 - September 1, 2014
The Woodmere Annual
Woodmere Art Museum | Philadelphia, PA | two paintings
2013
Acquisition – Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
“Guildford Snow, UK”, 8 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches, gouache on paper, 2003-2005
December 7 - 31, 2013
10 x 10
South Street Gallery | Greenport, NY | Benefit for the North Fork Environmental Council
December 5, 2013 - January 26, 2014
Twelve X Twelve
PAFA Alumni Gallery | Philadelphia, PA | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
December 1 - 29, 2013
Small Work – Gallery Artists
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia
August 2 – September 8, 2013
Fellowship Exhibition: The Unbroken Line
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Philadelphia, PA | received Sandra Karlin Award
February – June, 2013
The Philadelphia Story: Contemporary Figurative Works Drawn from the Academy
Asheville Art Museum | North Carolina | curated by Nancy Sokolove | figurative exhibition | two paintings
September 2012
Interview by Taryn Day | The Art Room “Interview with Elizabeth Wilson”
An Interview with Elizabeth Wilson | The Art Room | Artist Interviews & Discussion | Taryn Day
2009
Acquisition – State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
“Manayunk Window View, Overcast”, 58 x 40 inches, oil on linen, 1992
2009
A Retrospective: Elizabeth Wilson Paintings & Drawings 1982 – 2009
Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont College – Rosemont, PA
2005
Seraphin Gallery – Philadelphia, PA | “A Perfect Luminosity” Elizabeth Wilson | Solo Exhibition | October 14 – November 18, 2005
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.