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LIZ
I am passionate about my art practice, which includes Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, and Photography. Having graduated from Bennington College in 1960, where I studied painting with Paul Feeley, I returned to New York where I started showing my OpArt paintings and drawings at The Contemporaries Gallery. They represented Edward Avedisian's geometric OpArt work, and saw mine as the biomorphic equivalent. This was great till they closed down in the late 60's, at which time I shipped my paintings out to San Francisco, purchased a used red Dodge van, and drove out to join them. Vorpal Gallery represented me initially till I moved to the William Sawyer Gallery and then to Place Allrich till they closed. At this point my love of theatre had resurfaced, and I hooked up with The Low Moan Spectacular, a British fringe theatre group that was performing their comedy, "El Grande de Coca Cola" on Broadway in SF. Their company manager was leaving, and they asked me to accompany them back to London and set up the British tour for their new show "Bullshot Crummond" which I did. When the gig ended, I returned to San Francisco and entered the then hot field of advertising, both as on-camera and voice-over talent for Commercials and Industrials. I had a good 10 year run, when the desire to make art resurfaced, and I have been swimming in the creative soup ever since! The Op Art movement enjoyed its 15 minutes of fame back in the 1960s and I was there—in New York City—in the thick of it, represented by The Contemporaries Gallery on Madison Avenue at 79th Street. While most Op art paintings were geometric, mine were biomorphic, using gradations of complementary colors of the same value to create the retinal flash that characterized Op Art. My work was also referred to as Organic Abstraction. Find Liz in her San Francisco studio. |