Portrait of Elizabeth Schwaiger by Martyna Szczesna
Nicola Vassell is pleased to announce exclusive representation of painter Elizabeth Schwaiger, and her first solo exhibition at the gallery. Opening on January 11, 2024, Now & Now & Now, will include a new series of paintings offering expeditions into unpeopled spaces, unrestrained nature, and uncanny interiors. Schwaiger renders ethereal domains with dissonant materials; she applies watercolor, acrylic, ink, and oil to canvas in chromatically harmonious, but thinly veiled layers that bleed, permeate, and blur into overgrown, evanescent sceneries. Shaped by her personal experiences with childbirth and scuba diving—empirically disparate but sensorially analogous—Schwaiger’s life and practice are subsumed by forces greater than herself.
Elizabeth Schwaiger is a research-based artist living and working in Brooklyn. She received her BA from The University of North Texas and MFA from the Glasgow School of Art. In her decade-long exploration of power dynamics and the climate crises, Schwaiger has used variegated symbolism to depict water, fracturing, dimensional overlay and gesture, to construct images suggestive of the interplay among unseen forces that govern our world.
Elizabeth Schwaiger is a research-based artist living and working in Brooklyn. She received her BA from The University of North Texas and MFA from the Glasgow School of Art. In her decade-long exploration of power dynamics and the climate crises, Schwaiger has used variegated symbolism to depict water, fracturing, dimensional overlay and gesture, to construct images suggestive of the interplay among unseen forces that govern our world.
