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Born in Queens, NY to a family of artists, inventors and actors, Lizbeth Mitty grew up painting and writing. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in both the United States and abroad and is held in public and private collections including the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York State Museum, The Orlando Museum of Art, The Zimmerli Archive, The U.S. State Department, and Trierenberg Holding AG (Austria). My studio is located in Brooklyn, NY.
Described by New York Times critic Ken Johnson as a combination of “painterly verve and hellish beauty” — Mitty's work has long been concerned with examining and amplifying the intrinsic abstract beauty of deteriorating or overlooked corners of urban architecture and interiors. In 2015, one object, the chandelier, rose up from detritus to dominate her body of work. Spectacular, illuminated and intricate, the chandelier is evocative of grandeur. In contrast, for much of Mitty's career, scrap yards and other sites of urban devastation, locations of organized chaos, formally beautiful, yet apocalyptic and terrifying. Similarly, the chandeliers speak of decadence, sadness, elegance, death and hope.
By 2017, the chandeliers began to open and morph into architecture in the round. Gazebos and scrap dominate a verdant post-apocalyptic landscape that the viewer may enter. The juxtapositions of conflicting images, such as man-made detritus and lush English gardens, serve as commentary on a post-9/11 sense of impermanence and the imperative to consider the finite nature of the earth's resources. The cyclical nature and mutability of things in times of excess are the subliminal driving forces in these works.
“Acutely observed, remembered and then re-imagined, these futuristic scenes are not so much renditions of a specific location as they are dizzying translations in paint of Mitty's wonderment at the endless variety of visual information offered up by her subjects.” — Art in America, January 2006
- Creator:Lizbeth Mitty (American)
- Dimensions:Height: 6 in (15.24 cm)Width: 8 in (20.32 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Darien, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU17225703171
Lizbeth Mitty
Lizbeth Mitty's body of work has long been concerned with amplifying the intrinsic abstract beauty of deteriorating corners of urban architecture and interiors. For much of her career, scrap yards and other sites of urban devastation fascinated the artist as locations of organized chaos; formally beautiful yet apocalyptic and terrifying. In Mitty's landscapes, the cyclicality of nature and the mutability of things in times of excess are subliminal driving forces. Mitty responded to the events of 2020 by moving from a focus on themes around decay and decadence to painting ebullient, postcard-perfect memories. With fast-moving wet into wet paint, a method of pouring paint from earlier works, these images arise out of constant potential change. Mitty's idyllic landscapes allow the preservation of a peaceful moment that too often gives way to the ineluctable uncertainty of the future of these places. An array of methods and tools are used to create the image where, for a moment, the viewer is offered elegance, hope, and optimism. “Acutely observed, remembered and then re-imagined, these futuristic scenes are not so much renditions of a specific location as they are dizzying translations in paint of Mitty's wonderment at the endless variety of visual information offered up by her subjects.” — Art in America, January 2006 Born in Queens, NY to a family of artists, inventors and actors, Lizbeth Mitty grew up painting and writing. Mitty's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in both the United States and abroad and is held in public and private collections including the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York State Museum, The Orlando Museum of Art, The Zimmerli Archive, The U.S. State Department, and Trierenberg Holding AG (Austria). Lizbeth Mitty's studio is located in Brooklyn, NY.
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