statement
This painting is my first attempt at a pure landscape painting, where the dynamics of the landscape are more than a stage setting for figurative drama. It is also my first attempt at a landscape that was not a premier coup, not a one-shot adventure. Painted over the course of six or seven long afternoons, it was a very different kind of challenge.
In one-shot landscape paintings, air and light are the primary concerns. In this longer painting, the firm topographical reality of the Tiber River Valley became unavoidable. The color of light would change, but the grade of the hillsides, the rhythm of fields and river would remain the same. It was an exercise in revealing and recording the absolute solidity of form through the constantly variable effects of atmosphere and color.
bio
born: 1982, St. Louis, Missouri
education
Indiana University Bloomington, MFA, 2009
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine arts, Certificate, 2006
University of Pennsylvania, BFA, 2006
selected awards/honors
Manifest Gallery ONE Prize, Semi-Finalist, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2013
Prizm Award, Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2012
Vermont Studio Center Residency and Artists Grant, 2011
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal, Canada, 2010 and 2007
selected publications
Manifest Gallery's 3rd International Painting Annual, Exhibition in Print, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2012
Dan Grossman, "Review: Elise Schweitzer at Gallery 924" NUVO, Nov 7, 2012
Manifest Gallery's 7th International Drawing Annual, Exhibition in Print, Cincinnati, Ohio
Manifest Gallery's 1st International Painting Annual, Exhibition in Print, Cincinnati, Ohio
selected solo or two-person exhibits
Berea College: Crisis and Compassion, Doris Ullman Gallery, Berea, Kentucky, 2013
Centaurs and Skydivers, Roanoke Art Works, Roanoke, Virginia, 2013
Centaurs and Belly Dancers, Gallery 924, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2012
selected group shows
HIGH (realism's realism), Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2013
Honoring the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Artists' House Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2012
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