Elizabeth Huey

"Set in landscapes with looming architecture and turbulent skies, Elizabeth Huey's large-scale, prismatic paintings expose historical and eccentric characters engulfed in psychological scenarios - both sinister and sublime. In a humanistic revision of Piranesi's "carceri", windows glow fiercely as though they are aflame, picking out pathways that take the form of staircases, stonewalls, and grids of industrial piping. Surprising spatial arrangements and disjunctive scale shifts support a hypnagogic sense of seeing things from the inside out. A dystopic sense of grand schemas gone awry, there is nonetheless a fierce joy and exuberance in Huey's paintings."

Biography

Elizabeth has exhibited at Heiner Contemporary in Washington, DC, the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia in Virginia Beach, VA, The Wild Project in New York, NY, Quality Pictures in Portland, OR, and New Image in Los Angeles, CA.

She was the recipient of a Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship in Washington, DC in 2008, a Contemporary Artist Center Merit Award Residency in North Adams, MA in 2006, a Johns Hopkins University Travel Fellowship in Bologna, Italy in 2006, and a Terra Foundation of American Art Fellowship & Residency in Giverny, France in 2001.

She received her MFA from Yale University in New Haven, CT in 2002, and her BA from George Washington University in Washington, DC in 1993.