Elizabeth Neel’s paintings and sculptures blur relationships between architecture and the body, memory and action. Drawn from specific, real world subject matter—from anonymous images sourced from the Internet to found objects—Neel’s ‘fictive situations’ trace excavations of life, along with its contamination through death and decay. While ostensibly abstract, Neel’s paintings have an uncanny insistence on the representational residue of mark making. Her smears and punctuations of tape hint towards the reconstructive narrative potential of abstraction. Her sculptural assemblages extend the sensibility of perspective and proximity between disparate gestures into three dimensions, using a diverse array of materials including clay, wood, wax, tape, inkjet prints and found objects. Through stimulating relationships between her paintings and sculptures Neel returns to architecture as a narrative tool for framing objects and images.
Born in 1975, Neel lives and works in New York. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in 2007. Recent solo exhibitions include: Vulture and Chicks, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (2016); Lobster with Shell Game, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles (2015); The People, the Park, the Ornament, Pilar Corrias, London (2014); 3 and 4 before 2 and 5, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York (2013); Routes and Pleasures, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles (2012); Sphinx Ditch, Pilar Corrias, London (2011); Leopard Complex, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York (2011); Stick Season, curated by Fionn Meade at SculptureCenter, New York (2010). Recent group exhibitions include: August and Everything After, Plymouth Rock, Zurich (2016); Performing Time, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai (2016); Paradigm Store, Howick Place, London (2014); Speaking Through Paint, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York (2014); I Mean Orange, STUDIOLO, Zurich (2012); Modern Talking, curated by Nicola Trezzi, Cluj Museum, Cluji-Napoca (2012); Painting overall, Prague Biennale 5 (2011); Going Where the Weather Suits My Cloths – A fall of light on fabric, Mother’s Tank Station, Dublin (2011).
Born 1975 in Vermont, United States
Lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Claw Hammer, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles – US
2016
Vulture and Chicks, Pilar Corrias, London – UK
2015
Lobster with Shell Game, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles – US
2014
The People, the Park, the Ornament, Pilar Corrias, London – UK
2013
3 and 4 before 2 and 5, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York – US
2012
Routes and Pleasures, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles – US
2011
Sphinx Ditch, Pilar Corrias, London – UK
Leopard Complex, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York – US
2010
Stick Season, Sculpture Centre, New York – US
2009
Elizabeth Neel, Monica De Cardenas Gallery, Milan – IT
2008
Make No Bones, Deitch Projects, New York – US
2005
Elizabeth Neel, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York – US
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
August and Everything After, Plymouth Rock, Zurich – CH
Performing Time, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai – CN
2014
Paradigm Store, Howick Place, London – UK
Speaking Through Paint, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York – US
2013
Sikkema, Jenkins, and Co., New York – US
2012
Modern Talking (curated by Nicola Trezzi), Cluj Museum, Cluji-Napoca – RO
Uri Aran/Elizabeth Neel: I mean orange, STUDIOLO, Zurich – CH
2011
Painting overall, Prague Biennale 5, Prague – CZ
Four Rooms, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw – PL
Going Where the Weather Suits My Cloths – A fall of light on fabric, Mother’s Tank Station, Dublin – IR
A painting show, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York – US
2010
Purity is Myth, Pilar Corrias, London – UK
Living with Art: Collecting Contemporary in Metro New York, The Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, Purchase, NY – US
Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool (curated by Bob Nickas), Sagaponack, NY – US
Summer Group Show, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles – US
Summer Show, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York – US
2009
Cave Painting (curated by Bob Nickas), New York – US
Abstract America, Saatchi Gallery, London – UK
On Paper, Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz – CH
Pulp Fiction, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY – US
2008
8 1/2 x 11/A4, James Fuentes LLC, New York – US
A Seer Out of Season, On Stellar Rays, New York – US
Substraction, Deitch Projects, New York – US
2007
Late Liberties, John Connelly Presents, New York – US
Landscape, Southfirst, Brooklyn – US
Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn, Vienna – AT
POKER, Monica De Cardenas Gallery, Milan – IT
2006
Farewell to Icon, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles – US
The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York – US
New Work, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York – US
2005
Flower Power, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York – US
Off My Biscuit, Destroy Your District”, Samson Projects, Boston – US
EDUCATION
2007
MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY
2002
Diploma Certificate, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1997
BA, Brown University, Providence, RI
Vitamin P3 | New Perspectives in Painting featuring Helen Johnson, Sabine Moritz, Elizabeth Neel and Mary Ramsden
Out now! Vitamin P3 – New Perspectives in Painting The next installment in the popular Vitamin series – the world’s hottest painters, selected by international expert featuring Helen Johnson, Sabine Moritz, Elizabeth Neel, and Mary Ramsden by Phaidon Editors Buy here
“Performing Time” an exhibition co-presented by Leo Xu Projects and Pilar Corrias Gallery at Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai
PILAR CORRIAS GALLERY and LEO XU PROJECTS cordially invite you to the opening of group exhibition “Performing Time” on Saturday, April 23rd, 2016, 6-8pm at LEO XU PROJECTS’ Shanghai space. Co-organized and co-produced by both galleries, the show features recent … More
Tobias Rehberger, Elizabeth Neel and Ulla von Brandenburg at Howick Place
Tobias Rehberger, Elizabeth Neel and Ulla von Brandenburg will all be featured in the group exhibition Paradigm Store at Howick Place, London. HS Projects transforms an empty office building into a five storey exhibition featuring site-specific installations, large-scale sculptures, paintings and video works … More
Pilar Corrias at Artissima, Turin
Participating at Artissima Pilar Corrias will present new works by artists: CHARLES AVERY ULLA VON BRANDENBURG TALA MADANI SABINE MORITZ ELIZABETH NEEL KEN OKIISHI PHILIPPE PARRENO MARY RAMSDEN JULIÃO SARMENTO RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA ARTISSIMA Turin 8-10 November Booth: 1/2 Corridor Dark … More
Elizabeth Neel at abc 2013
Pilar Corrias will present an artist curated booth of new paintings and sculputures by Elizabeth Neel at abc. acb – Art Berlin Contemporary 19-22 September 2013 STATION-Berlin Luckenwalder Straße 4-6, 10963 Berlin, Germany For more info
Elizabeth Neel, Tobias Rehberger and Julião Sarmento at Drawing Biennial 2013, Drawing Room, London
Elizabeth Neel, Tobias Rehberger and Julião Sarmento have donated artworks for the Drawing Biennial 2013 at Drawing Room. Curated by Drawing Room directors, over 200 artists are invited to make an original drawing in any medium on an A4 sheet … More
Elizabeth Neel at STUDIOLO in Zurich
Pilar Corrias is delighted to announce Elizabeth Neel’s participation in a join exhibition with Uri Aran at STUDIOLO in Zurich STUDIOLO strives to confront artistic production with it‘s reception. Following and reinterpretating the Renaissance con- cept of a space where … More
Elizabeth Neel at the Sculpture centre, New York
Pilar Corrias Gallery is proud to announce solo exhibition of the work by Elizabeth Neel at The Sculpture Centre, New York. Elizabeth Neel: Stick Season consists of a new body of works on paper and sculptures that examine the tension … More
Olivia Parkes, ‘Messy Art to Depict Our Messy Lives’, Vice, November 2015 (Download PDF)
MK Palomar, ‘Elizabeth Neel: Interview’, Studio International, May 2014 (Download PDF)
Nikki Neervens, ‘Elizabeth Neel: The People, The Park, The Ornament’, Volt Cafe, May 2014 (Download PDF)
Skye Sherwin, ‘Artist of the Week 156: Elizabeth Neel’, The Guardian, September 2011 (Download PDF)
Cherry Smyth, ‘Elizabeth Neel: Sphinx Ditch’, This Is Tomorrow, September 2011 (Download PDF)
Morgan Falconer, ‘Elizabeth Neel: Leopard Complex’, Art Review, December 2009 (Download PDF)
Elizabeth Neel: Vulture and Chicks
Pilar Corrias Gallery is pleased to present Vulture and Chicks, the third solo exhibition by American artist Elizabeth Neel with the gallery. The exhibition features new paintings on canvas alongside works on paper. Elizabeth Neel displays her continued interest in … More
Elizabeth Neel: THE PEOPLE, THE PARK, THE ORNAMENT
The People, the Park, the Ornament is an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by American artist, Elizabeth Neel. Visual studies in controlled chaos, the works display Neel’s continued interest in the theme of the psychological undercurrent and friction between … More
Elizabeth Neel ‘Sphinx Ditch’
Pilar Corrias Gallery is delighted to present ‘Sphinx Ditch’: an exhibition of new work by Elizabeth Neel. In her first solo exhibition in London, Elizabeth Neel explores intersections between gesture, material, memory, and space using Pilar Corrias Gallery as both a … More
Purity is a Myth
Pilar Corrias Gallery is delighted to present Purity is a Myth, an exhibition bringing together new work by Keltie Ferris, Rannv a Kunoy, Elizabeth Neel, Baker Overstreet and Mary Ramsden. Grounded in a rejection of painting as a vehicle for … More