My artistic aspiration is to create all-encompassing environments including paintings, self-designed fabrics, and free-standing elements together, inspired by Monet’s History of the Water Lilies cycle at L’Orangerie, Whistler’s Peacock Room in Washington, DC, and The Garden of the Master of the Nets in Suzhou.
Elisabeth Condon, Notes on a Landscape (detail), at Emerson Dorsch's booth, 2015 New York Pulse fair. This portion of the double booth featured artist-designed wallpaper on which paintings made on the Swatch Art Peace Hotel residency were placed. The poured color relates to Shanghai's Huangpu River, while Condon's tracings document urban life inland. Awarded the 2015 New York Pulse Prize.
Elisabeth Condon, Pavilion of Spring and Summer (detail), 2017, Glyndor Gallery, in Flora Fantastica! curated by Jennifer McGregor. Paintings and ink drawings made on residency during the Winter Workspace residency recorded plants stored in the Sun Room beyond the window of this very same space. A pattern from the drawing becomes the wallpaper pattern. Photograph Stefan Hagen.
Elisabeth Condon, Eye in the Canopy, Casa Cor Design Fair (curated by Ground Control Miami) and Effulgence, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, both 2019. Paintings and dimensional orchid leaf idiom by Condon under ceiling by Karen Rifas; Below, dimensional lattice, bird and plant forms extend painting space outward. Photo Letter 16 Press.
Elisabeth Condon, post-Epistemic Flower, 2023, acrylic and medium on linen, 57 x 72 inches. From an out-of-focus center, the flower becomes a planet that floats in outer space. The title paraphrases a recent New York Times interview with philosopher Daniel C. Dennett quoting Microsoft chief scientist Eric Horvitz's term “post-epistemic” describing A.I.: “We could be entering a post-epistemic world, where nobody knows what’s going on because of the powers of these systems ...to create alternative realities.” Dennett affirms we've taken "the presence of agreed-upon landmarks and sources of common knowledge for granted for a long time."
Elisabeth Condon, Radiant Flower, 2023, Acrylic and medium on linen, 72 x 57 inches. Interior design, natural forms, and abstract painting combine luminous color with scroll painting techniques such as splashed ink and stroke order, reconstructing nature through the integrated perspectives of scroll painting and feminism.
