BIO
Elisabeth Condon lives and works in New York City and Tampa, FL. Condon is the recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation and Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grants. Her paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Hudson River Museum, United States Embassy Beijing, Tampa Museum of Art, and Perez Art Museum Miami. Condon's public commissions include MTA Art & Design Percent for Art, Norte Maar Collaboration for the Arts, and Tribeca Film Institute's Storefront Art Recovery Initiative (STAR). Her NYCT Ditmars-Astoria subway station design was a 2024 selection for the Poetry in Motion series.
STATEMENT
My paintings, works on paper, and polymers approach landscape as a synthetic construction. Inspired by Chinese scrolls, they layer diverse paint applications and spontaneous pours into synchronous terrains. While pours imply flowers or movement, patterns indicate systems and structures. As pour and pattern flow together, they complicate the surface and unfolding of time.
The work originates in the conservative, lavishly decorated household of childhood, where décor doubled as God. Wallpaper surrounded and surveilled me, its plant and lattice patterns abbreviating nature as scrolls do. This developed into a personal calligraphy conveying multiple associations of place by overlapping vintage décor, scroll painting, and abstraction. Focusing on one aspect then another, painting considers landscape by what it looks and feels like.