Elizabeth Shreve
A Form of Dreaming
2000
Oil on linen
18 x 41 inches
ES 73
Elizabeth Shreve
Midway On Cat Day
2001
Oil on linen
20 x 62 inches
ES 83
Elizabeth Shreve
Tip-Mip-Lp-Wip And Up
2001
Oil on linen
9 x 14 inches
ES 84
Elizabeth Shreve
Child Swimmer Attempts the Impossible
2001
Oil on linen
9 x 14 inches
ES 85
The Birds and the Bees
Oil on linen
24 x 20 inches
ES 117
The Nature of Bees
2009
Oil on linen
24 x 20 inches
ES 117
Untitled
Oil on linen
24 x 22 inches
ES 120
Be Too Glad
Oil on linen
24 x 14 inches
ES 121
Home Life
Oil on linen
28 x 24 inches
ES 134
Kiss My Shoe
Oil on linen
14 x 12 inches
ES 138
Reptile Gardens
Oil on linen
16 x 12 inches
ES 139
Deny - Retrieve
Oil on linen
16 x 12 inches
ES 140
Permit - Mercy
Oil on linen
14 x 12 inches
ES 141
Our Flesh and Blood
Oil on linen
13 x 15 inches
ES 144
Unrelenting Mystery
Oil on linen
18 x 16 inches
ES 145
The Nutrients of Love Are Mysterious
Oil on linen
16 x 17 inches
ES 146
The Eight Emotional Powers
Oil on linen
28 x 24 inches
ES 147
The Smile
2009
Oil on linen
16 x 17 inches
ES 151
Four Birds
Oil on linen
2009
16 x 17 inches
ES 152
To Vitalize It
2010
Oil on linen
16 x 18 inches
ES 153
Fears and Desires Magnifique
2010
Oil on linen
16 x 17 inches
ES 154
Pleasure
2009
Oil on linen
22 x 24 inches
ES 155
I and Pie
2009
Oil on linen
13 x 12 inches
ES 156
Theater X
2010
Oil on linen
24 x 22 inches
ES 157
Artist’s Statement
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
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