Painting and Sculpture

Elisabeth Condon

Elisabeth Condon (born 1959) is a contemporary American painter who combines natural imagery, the built environment, and abstraction in her free-flowing synthetic landscapes. Vivid color palettes and contrasting organic and geometric shapes characterize Condon's work. So too does a deliberate mixing of painting techniques, from careful rendering to loose gesture. Indeed, Condon seems to intentionally defy adherence to any single standard. Forms, places, and times move seamlessly into one another, transformed and organized by a sense rhythm divorced from reality. In her depictions of stacked spaces, history and geography are collapsed. The landscapes depicted are both themselves altered by human interaction, and the ensuing paintings feel like idiosyncratic records of Condon's mind and her imaginings of the space. As one critic puts it: "the result feels like a dream or memory suddenly, if fleetingly, made visible." Viewing Condon's paintings, imbued as they are with this intense personal quality, consequently feels "a bit like reading her diary: strangely disorienting at first, then disarming and familiar."

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• ▸Helen Frankenthaler
• ▸Cathedral of Ani
• ▸Art of the United Kingdom

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