2021
Elizabeth Gourlay is an American abstract artist, whose work emerges from a progressive process of layering color, lines and forms, informed both by inner emotional states, and her observation of nature and architecture. She lives and works in Chester, Connecticut. She was invited to work with Master Printer Anthony Kirk. Gourlay finds the immediacy and experimental quality of monotypes valuable to her practice as an artist. Her work is featured in various private and corporate collections, including The Lewitt Collection, The Marriott Family and Yale University. She is the recipient of several grants and fellowships, including two Individual Artist State Grants from the DECD/Connecticut Office of the Arts. In 2011, she was an invited artist in residence at the studio of Sol LeWitt, Spoleto, Italy. Gourlay uses a wide range of media such as oil, flashe, acrylic, ink and graphite to create artfully simple and strong compositions. Gourlay thinks of her work as a meditation on colors, lines and forms, leading to a complex network of shifting shapes and colors. She has an interest in elements found in nature, architecture and music, drawing lines, grids and geometric shapes to demonstrate it. Indeed, her work is often described by its musicality and architectural connotations. The use of line suggests influences from Agnes Martin, while her play of color reminds Paul Klee’s work. Her compositions deal with order and chaos using a line, color and shape.
AB21, Geometric Abstract Painting, Beige, Orange, Yellow Ochre, Gray, Blue, Sage
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
Clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and blocks of color in orange, green, pale lemon yellow, gray, blue, purple and brown are lively and vibrant against the soft beige backg...
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel, Color Pencil
Limegreyrose, Beige, Orange, Green, Lemon Yellow, Gray Stripes, Geometric
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
Clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and blocks of color in orange, green, pale lemon yellow, gray, blue and brown are lively and vibrant against the soft beige background. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Elizabeth Gourlay’s work is a meditation on color and form, a gradual yet progressive analysis leading to a complex vocabulary of shapes, color and line. Musical composition, emotional states and our collective subconscious resonate within bars, lines and blocks of color. The abstract forms emerge, layer and shift in precisely ordered, carefully composed rhythms. Gourlay's artwork is a contemplation of the elements that make color in reduced forms come to life: size, flatness, relation to its edges, and how the presence of other colors affect how it is perceived. Gourlay drew inspiration from shapes found in everyday life and in her studio. The observed shapes either remain as they are or become simplified to their essential geometric elements. Subtleties in color, area, edge or orientation are the catalyst for emotive responses. Palette is minimized; the artist rarely used a wide palette within one work. Rather, a broad range of colors are explored and then reduced. Gourlay investigates color properties: complementary or analogous color, value, saturation and color harmony vs. color anomaly. Elizabeth’s Gourlay’s work has been shown extensively throughout the United States. The artist was 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. Gourlay earned her MFA at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, and her BA from Edinburgh...
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
H Two, Beige, Apricot Orange, Yellow, Light Blue, Dark Gray Abstract Stripes
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
Clean and precise hand-painted stripes and blocks of color in yellow, orange, light blue and dark gray are warm and vibrant against the soft beige background. Signed, dated and title...
Canvas, Acrylic
AB22, Beige, Gray, Blue, Light Green, Red Orange Stripes Abstract Painting
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this abstract painting by Elizabeth Gourlay, clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and blocks of color in gray, light green, red orange and blue are lively and vibrant agai...
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel, Color Pencil
Chestnut, Mint Green, Brown, Orange, Beige Geometric Stripes
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
Clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and blocks of color in pale mint green, light blue, brown, beige and burnt orange complement the soft gray and beige background. Signed, ...
Canvas, Ink, Vinyl
Blue Umber, Beige, Light Blue, Brown, Orange, Gray Abstract Painting, Stripes
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
Clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and blocks of color in warm orange, soft yellow, pale blue and light brown are lively and vibrant against the soft beige background. Sign...
Canvas, Acrylic
C63 (Abstract painting)
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in London, GB
C63 (Abstract painting) Acrylic on linen on board — Unframed. Elizabeth Gourlay is an American abstract artist whose work emerges from a progressive process of layering colour, line...
Linen, Acrylic, Board
Stripe 9 Encaustic Mixed Media Painting, Abstract Geometric, 2010-
By Mary Long
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Brown, Orange, Blue, Pink, Green, Yellow, Red Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she be...
Mixed Media, Encaustic
Stripe 14 Abstract Geometric Painting, Encaustic Mixed Media, 2010+
By Mary Long
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Brown, Orange, Blue, Pink, Green, Yellow, Red Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she be...
Mixed Media, Encaustic
Stripe 10 Abstract Geometric Painting, Encaustic on Mixed Media, 2010+
By Mary Long
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Brown, Orange, Blue, Pink, Green, Yellow, Red Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she be...
Mixed Media, Encaustic
'Exchange - geometric, pattern, stripes, earth tones
By Amanda Brazier
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Exchange" is a geometric abstract painting featuring yellow, orange, white, and brown hues. Amanda Brazer creates handmade oil paints from locally harvested earth pigments. She is ...
Oil, Panel
FS 214 - Soft pastel color orange, blue, beige abstract geometric watercolor
By Evan Venegas
Located in New York, NY
Evan Venegas studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and earned his BFA in Painting in 1998. Evan Venegas creates artwork that lives at the intersection of geometry and atmosphere...
Watercolor, Archival Paper
