Faculty Artist

Elizabeth Meyersohn's Artist’s Statement

I have been painting the landscape for the last fifteen years. The work included here has been painted within the last year. All on linen, these paintings are about a particular color idea. I am trying to paint landscapes where the range in the tones is so close it is almost nonexistent.. I am trying to paint the kind of color one recalls, not the kind of color one perceives. The linen paintings are all in oil and wax. The wax medium allows me to a build denser , more complex color.
Flooded fields near the Connecticut River are the subjects in the “close color” paintings. I am quite taken with the residual geometry the corn stocks leave when the fields flood; it is a way for me to map the color in space. It is important to me to surround the viewer with the color. The paintings are each about five feet large.
All the work is based on a combination of on site painting, photography and pastel drawing. I tend to take many photos of an “event “in the landscape
(Flooded meadow; a pebble thrown) and then manipulate the color and structure of the photograph. Increasingly, the work has demanded a permutation of traditional and non-traditional painting methods.

For samples of Elizabeth meyerson's works, please scroll down. She often shows at Art Back Door Gallery in NYC.