Laura Elkins, “At the Beach 1”
Watercolor on paper, 6x9 inches, 2020
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BIO
Laura Elkins, who maintains a home&studio in Washington DC, has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions world-wide. She has been the recipient of many grants and residencies, including funding by the NEA, The Rockefeller Foundation, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for her art-and-architecture project, The Children’s Room in 1993. In 2008, she was the Forsyth Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and in 2015 joined the Santa Fe Art Institute’s Residency. In February 2020, she joined Escape to Create in Seaside, Florida and in May 2020 (COVID postponed until 2022) Vermont Studio Center, courtesy of an Artist/Writer Grant. "Coping with COVID,” where she bound her hands together to draw her self-portrait in response to the pandemic, was included in Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition that opened in London September 2021 and after November toured the UK.
STATEMENT
The self-portraits-as has been a major focus of my work since 2000 when I began self-portraits-as First Ladies in The White House Collection.Through this device, I have developed the self-portrait-as into a distinct genre of figure painting that embraces the complexities of contemporary life and explores hot button issues such as social justice, abortion, handguns, and abuse of power. I embraced the persona of Greta Thunberg to explore global warming during a residency in Seaside, Florida in 2020. A selection of these plein air self-portraits-as, along with earlier work, was featured in the recent exhibition HEROINEITY: Laura Elkins, Karen Finley, Katya Grokhovsky, Cindy Sherman, Martha Wilson, Suzanne Lacy and Andrea Bowers, curated by Yulia Tikhonova. In addition to plein air self-portraits at the beach, I enjoy making oceanside watercolors, a selection of which is my submission to the flat file.
Watercolor on paper, 6x9 inches, 2020
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR AN ESTIMATE.
BIO
Laura Elkins, who maintains a home&studio in Washington DC, has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions world-wide. She has been the recipient of many grants and residencies, including funding by the NEA, The Rockefeller Foundation, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for her art-and-architecture project, The Children’s Room in 1993. In 2008, she was the Forsyth Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and in 2015 joined the Santa Fe Art Institute’s Residency. In February 2020, she joined Escape to Create in Seaside, Florida and in May 2020 (COVID postponed until 2022) Vermont Studio Center, courtesy of an Artist/Writer Grant. "Coping with COVID,” where she bound her hands together to draw her self-portrait in response to the pandemic, was included in Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition that opened in London September 2021 and after November toured the UK.
STATEMENT
The self-portraits-as has been a major focus of my work since 2000 when I began self-portraits-as First Ladies in The White House Collection.Through this device, I have developed the self-portrait-as into a distinct genre of figure painting that embraces the complexities of contemporary life and explores hot button issues such as social justice, abortion, handguns, and abuse of power. I embraced the persona of Greta Thunberg to explore global warming during a residency in Seaside, Florida in 2020. A selection of these plein air self-portraits-as, along with earlier work, was featured in the recent exhibition HEROINEITY: Laura Elkins, Karen Finley, Katya Grokhovsky, Cindy Sherman, Martha Wilson, Suzanne Lacy and Andrea Bowers, curated by Yulia Tikhonova. In addition to plein air self-portraits at the beach, I enjoy making oceanside watercolors, a selection of which is my submission to the flat file.
Watercolor on paper, 6x9 inches, 2020
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR AN ESTIMATE.
BIO
Laura Elkins, who maintains a home&studio in Washington DC, has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions world-wide. She has been the recipient of many grants and residencies, including funding by the NEA, The Rockefeller Foundation, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for her art-and-architecture project, The Children’s Room in 1993. In 2008, she was the Forsyth Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and in 2015 joined the Santa Fe Art Institute’s Residency. In February 2020, she joined Escape to Create in Seaside, Florida and in May 2020 (COVID postponed until 2022) Vermont Studio Center, courtesy of an Artist/Writer Grant. "Coping with COVID,” where she bound her hands together to draw her self-portrait in response to the pandemic, was included in Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition that opened in London September 2021 and after November toured the UK.
STATEMENT
The self-portraits-as has been a major focus of my work since 2000 when I began self-portraits-as First Ladies in The White House Collection.Through this device, I have developed the self-portrait-as into a distinct genre of figure painting that embraces the complexities of contemporary life and explores hot button issues such as social justice, abortion, handguns, and abuse of power. I embraced the persona of Greta Thunberg to explore global warming during a residency in Seaside, Florida in 2020. A selection of these plein air self-portraits-as, along with earlier work, was featured in the recent exhibition HEROINEITY: Laura Elkins, Karen Finley, Katya Grokhovsky, Cindy Sherman, Martha Wilson, Suzanne Lacy and Andrea Bowers, curated by Yulia Tikhonova. In addition to plein air self-portraits at the beach, I enjoy making oceanside watercolors, a selection of which is my submission to the flat file.