New York-based artist Elizabeth Glaessner (b. 1984, Palo Alto, USA) creates vibrant, multi-layered pictorial universes in her paintings. Cast in chromatic swathes of hot and cool, Glaessner’s amorphous figures, evocative poses, and surreal environments blend art historical reference and cultural observation into paintings that pose more questions than answers. Glaessner embraces improvisation in her work as a way to counter the authority of moral imagery or dogmatic narrative. Often beginning by pouring preliminary colors on a flat surface, Glaessner allows stochastic mark-making and loose, liquid shapes to form the underpinnings of scenes in which figures and landscapes are in constant metamorphosis, challenging the limits of interpretation.

Elizabeth Glaessner was born in Palo Alto, California and grew up in Houston, Texas. After receiving her BA from Trinity University in 2006, she moved to New York and completed her MFA at the New York Academy of Art in 2013. She 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 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, Paris, France and François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA. Glaessner will present her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery in September 2025.