1. Elisabeth Condon was born on 1959 and is a contemporary American painter who combines natural imagery, the built environment, and abstraction in her free-flowing synthetic landscapes.
14 Facts About Elisabeth Condon
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Indeed, Elisabeth Condon seems to intentionally defy adherence to any single standard.
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Elisabeth Condon employs every use of paint handling from delicate transparent washes to thick impasto.
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Elisabeth Condon draws from Yuan Dynasty scrolls the philosophy that a landscape painting is a portrait of an artist's inner life.
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Elisabeth Condon borrows a complex sense of space and perspective, where different points of view are forged into one multi-layer and time-compressed experience.
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Whereas the western painting tradition values contrast and opposition, Elisabeth Condon seeks a delicate balance between fullness and emptiness in her compositions.
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Elisabeth Condon is inspired by a splashed-ink method that can be found in some painting and pottery of the Later Tang Dynasty.
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Elisabeth Condon often begins a composition with pouring acrylic or oil paint, so that the kinetic quality of the material creates unexpected forms and effects.
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Elisabeth Condon's pours are at the intersection of crossed axes, one between image and shape, the other between pattern and gesture, offering the potential in subsequent layers to transform into any of them.
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Elisabeth Condon now uses vintage wallpaper patterns as a visual element in her work, and recounts asking her mother for leftover wallpaper and fabric samples to use in her studio.
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The decorative here in Elisabeth Condon's painting serves as a formal device and a marker of "feminine" identity asserting itself against a culture of reactionary values.
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Elisabeth Condon has taught extensively in Florida, and travelled widely for research and residencies.
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Elisabeth Condon has run an art criticism blog, Raggedy Ann's Foot, since 2007.
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Elisabeth Condon has exhibited extensively in the US and internationally since 1998.