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Statement
The overall content of my work includes excitement, joy in being alive, and an appreciation for every day. Indicative, expressive and meaningful qualities develop through the instinctive arrangement of colors and geometric elements. I am inspired by ideas from Suprematism, Constructivism, Dada, Synthetic Cubism, Conceptualism, Emblematic Surrealism, and American quilts. All thematic and visual exploration I do includes significant attention to color.
A painting is a way to empathize with human experiences on a more universal level. My recent paintings address buoyancy, levity, themes of duality and continuity, energy, fragility, microcosm versus macrocosm, and more. For me, a painting might include: the physicality of the material world; imagination and subconscious thought; past experience; historical influence and context; formal visual elements; ontological expression, symbols, a sense of wonder, humor, persistent chromatic energy, joy, and conceptual decision-making. Painting is like skipping down a sidewalk on the first warm day in spring.
I hope to achieve an objective and material reality with the paintings that coincides with and forms an impression of non-objective and immaterial reality. For example, in the world, a human laugh is a sound that can fill a crowded city bus, but the origins and lifespan of a human laugh are from a varied and often inexplicable mysterious fragile origin made from a precise synthesis of nerves, sensations, communications, cognitions, expressions and more. I would like to make a painting equivalent to a laugh, where all of the elements making the painting coincide at the right moment.
Bio
Elizabeth Meggs is a Brooklyn-based artist whose most recent work includes paintings,
public art, and designs such as clocks. She received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth
University on a full academic scholarship, graduating summa cum laude. She received her
master’s degree with distinction in Painting from Pratt Institute.
In recent years, she has had six solo shows of new work, and exhibited in 100+ group
shows, including Go Brooklyn! with the Brooklyn Museum, Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln
Center, Hudson River Park in Chelsea, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Galapagos Art Space, Edward
Hopper House, Pratt Institute’s Steuben and Dean’s Galleries, and more.
Awards and honors include being selected to attend the NYC Center for Book Arts’
Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers; recipient of two
Mellon Grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship for Drawing in the State of Virginia, and more.
In 2021, she was one of 78 artists selected to create a cow for CowParade New York
City. Her cow was selected as the number 6 favorite cow out of 78 cows, by Time Out New
York.
In 2022, she was selected as one of ten artists in New York City to create an ice
sculpture for the Inaugural Governors Island Ice Sculpture Exhibition.
In 2022, she was one of 20 observers from across America selected to be on-site on
September 26, 2022 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA’s DART
Mission spacecraft-asteroid collision.
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