Elizabeth Glaessner conjures a saturated, densely layered world of transformation and multiplicity. Inviting amorphousness in her subjects and environments, Glaessner’s surreal universe is populated by evocative forms in various states of becoming or undoing. Rich with art historical and cultural allusions, her work offers no narratives or fables, but rather evokes nebulous atmospheres unmoored by virtue and vice. Working in oil, acrylic and pure pigments dispersed with water and various binders, Glaessner’s technique shifts between formal articulation and non-representational gesture.
Glaessner was awarded a postgraduate fellowship at the New York Academy of Art in 2013, a residency at GlogauAIR, Berlin in 2013 and a residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in 2012. In February 2022, P·P·O·W presented Phantom Tail, Glaessner’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. In 2022, Le Consortium, Dijon, France presented Four Legs in a Garden, the first institutional solo presentation of Glaessner’s work. Glaessner has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at Perrotin, France and François Ghebaly, Los Angeles.
[excerpted from P·P·O·W website: www.ppowgallery.com]