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Biography
Elisabeth Condon, a painter, grew up in Los Angeles. California's brilliant light and exaggerated shapes of foliage fuel her aesthetic, in which Dr. Seuss and Yuan Dynasty coalesce. At age ten she encountered Monet's painting of poplars at the LA County Museum of Art; it transported her to another world and confirmed her desire to paint. After receiving her BFA from Otis/Parsons and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Condon migrated to New York. She is Associate Professor at University of South Florida and lives and works in Tampa, FL and Brooklyn, NY.
The semblance between Florida and Los Angeles inspires Condon to paint landscapes that overlay one space on another, deploying the explosions and spills of a collective visual vocabulary. Equating painting and travel as contingent processes, she begins a work with improvisational pours of color and responds to the structure they create. Her compositions riff and extrapolate on Chinese techniques and philosophies that synthesize memory and experience, infusing characteristics of her current location with places real and imagined. Condon views each mark or gesture as a swappable component with infinite variations, similar to calligraphy and Chinese idioms.
In 2006, with Mernet Larsen, Condon co-curated “Dragon Veins” at the University of South Florida’s Contemporary Art Museum. Since then her work has been included in exhibitions at Song Zhuang Museum, Beijing; Shenghua Art Centre, Nanjing; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Tampa Museum of Art, FL, Ft. Lauderdale Museum, FL and
the Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT. In 2009 Condon's work was featured in a survey exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA, for which a catalogue was published. Her work is represented in Miami by Dorsch Gallery, and in New York by Lesley Heller Work Space. |
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