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ELIZABETH SHREVE
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ES 117- The Birds and the Bees. 24 x 20 inches |
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ES 120- Untitled. 24 x 22 |
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ES 121- Be Too Glad. 24 x 14 |
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ES 134- Home Life. 28 x 24 |
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ES 138- Kiss My Shoe. 14 x 12 |
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ES 139- Reptile Gardens. 16 x 12
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ES 140- Deny - Retrieve. 16 x 12 |
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ES 141- Permit - Mercy. 14 x 12 |
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ES 142- Withstanding Sorrow. 14 x 12 |
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ES 143- Our Flesh and Blood: Being Unknown. 24 x 20 |
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ES 144- Our Flesh and Blood. 13 x 15 |
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ES 145- Unrelenting Mystery. 18 x 16 |
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ES 146- The Nutrients of Love Are Mysterious. 16 x 17 |
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ES 147- The Eight Emotional Powers. 28 x 24 |
ELIZABETH SHREVE
EDUCATION
1997 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1990 PhD in Psychology, Miami University of Ohio
1970 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
EXHIBITIONS
2006 Our Flesh and Blood, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 House of Madness and Mirth, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Wheel Of Fools, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Carl Hammer 2000, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Carl Hammer Gallery, Group Show, Chicago, IL
1999 Sextablos, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1998 Keep Off The Grass, NFA Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Carl Hammer Gallery, Group Show, Chicago, IL
1997 Small Wonder, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 MFA Thesis Show, SAIC, Chicago, IL
1995 Post-baccalaureate Show, SAIC, Chicago, IL
1986 C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, OH
1985 C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, OH
1978 Artist’s Space, New York, NY
AWARDS
1999 Illinois Arts Council Grant
2006 CAAP Grant
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Painting is about experience meditated on in a peculiar manner with the hope of sustaining genuine feeling and selfhood despite the myriad of emotional dangers inherent in living. It is both more cruel and more intimate than everyday life in its effort to preserve the depth and complexity of intimate engagement with life, not just to reflect the accommodations necessitated by our emotional and physical survival. At its best it is a compassionate endeavor; a form of experiencing that feels fully; accepting pain, grief and joy without the indulgences of judgement that limit our vulnerability, need, and fear but also our sense or realness. Thus, my paintings express a world that possesses me as much as I feel I possess myself. It is a troubled love within the dream of my painting, but one in which I believe the vulnerable can survive. Elizabeth Shreve |