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Elizabeth Gourlay
Blueaqua, Blue, Sage Green, Violet, Beige, Gray Stripes

2020

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In this abstract painting in colored pencil and acrylic on canvas by Elizabeth Gourlay, clean and precise, carefully ordered blocks of color in blue gray and light sage green are lively and vibrant while thin, delicate lines in blue and violet frame the composition. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Elizabeth Gourlay’s paintings are gradual and progressive meditations on color and form. Her shapes and lines create a distinct vocabulary of abstract marks. The work resonates with inner emotional states, elements of feelings or subconscious thoughts combined with conscious thought about color, form and geometric structure. Shifting bars, lines and blocks of color around the picture plane are analogous to moving musical notes and chords around the score. Gourlay earned her MFA at Yale University School of Art and her BA from Edinburgh College of Art. Her work has been shown extensively throughout the United States and she is the recipient of numerous residencies, fellowships and awards including Artist in Residence at the studio of Sol LeWitt in Spoleto, Italy. Gourlay’s work has been written about in The New Criterion, Painters’ Table, and Gorky’s Granddaughter to name a few.
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