Elizabeth Huey
Elizabeth Huey's paintings explore human connection and healing. Central to Huey’s practice is an engagement with passion and delirium and our society’s extraordinary attempts to create or cure these conditions. Her figures are often immersed in scenes of rehabilitation and recreation. Born from a substratum of wild, expressive paint, the architectural and figural elements of her work hail from a multiplicity of styles and eras. Huey draws imagery from her own photographs as well as an ever expanding collection of found photos, googled snapshots and historical research to delve into the complexities of her subjects. One gets the sense that myriad forces—from nature and architecture, to culture and history—are at work in the minds of each protagonist. The surprising spatial arrangements and disjunctive scale shifts in Huey’s work support a hypnagogic sense of seeing things from the inside out. By bringing together these disparate players in the worlds of her paintings, she creates dynamics, both visual and psychological, that are altogether new.
Most recently, she completed the Alma B.C. Schapiro Artist Residency at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, and the Soho House Artist Residency in Miami, Florida. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, with recent solo shows at Eastern …
Elizabeth Huey's paintings explore human connection and healing. Central to Huey’s practice is an engagement with passion and delirium and our society’s extraordinary attempts to create or cure these conditions. Her figures are often immersed in scenes of rehabilitation and recreation. Born from a substratum of wild, expressive paint, the architectural and figural elements of her work hail from a multiplicity of styles and eras. Huey draws imagery from her own photographs as well as an ever expanding collection of found photos, googled snapshots and historical research to delve into the complexities of her subjects. One gets the sense that myriad forces—from nature and architecture, to culture and history—are at work in the minds of each protagonist. The surprising spatial arrangements and disjunctive scale shifts in Huey’s work support a hypnagogic sense of seeing things from the inside out. By bringing together these disparate players in the worlds of her paintings, she creates dynamics, both visual and psychological, that are altogether new.
Most recently, she completed the Alma B.C. Schapiro Artist Residency at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, and the Soho House Artist Residency in Miami, Florida. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, with recent solo shows at Eastern Star Gallery in Los Angeles, Nobile and Amundsen in Virginia, and Heiner Contemporary in Washington, DC. Her work has been covered and reviewed by New York Magazine, Hyperallergic, Artforum, Vice, and Paper Magazine.
