Elizabeth Magee

Engaging with painting’s inherited properties and materials I aim at expanding its pictorial scope. Immersed in daily life and culture, my inquiry into painting is concerned with what exists alongside my work. Painting offers a place to decode the different parts of the self – searching for equilibrium but also serving as a tool for puzzling out the world and its contradictions.

Painting is a continuous project for me. My practice is built around a specific interest in exploring less-familiar forms that create a distinctly different place and space through their relationships to each other in scale, proximity, and in their conversation with each other. I paint on two-dimensional, rectangular surfaces employing several types of media: acrylic, oil, flashe, gouache, graphite, and occasionally collage elements.

I am a lifelong Oregonian currently living and working along the McKenzie River Watershed. I earned an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts (Montpelier, VT) and graduated from the University of Oregon (Eugene), with a BFA in painting and a minor in art history.

Selected Exhibitions:
2023
"Elizabeth Magee and John and Robin Gumaelius," Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, OR, May 5 - May 30. “This project supported by funds from the Oregon Arts Commission” 

2022

"12 x 12 x 12: A Celebration of Community," Arts Council of Lake Oswego ARTspace Gallery, Lake Oswego, OR, September 9 - October 28.

2021

"Umpqua Valley Arts Association Artworks Northwest Biennial Exhibit," Roseburg, OR, June 11 - August 20 (juror: Grace Kook-Anderson, Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art, Portland Art Museum)

"Imagery Overload," Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR, July 30 - August 27 (three-person with Jessica Eastburn, and Don Manderson)

2020

"In the Abstract," Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (juror: Gail Levin), June 4-27

"Summer Juried Exhibit," Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY (juror: Martica Sawin), July 7-25

2019
"Unfamiliar Ground," Umpqua Valley Art Center, Roseburg, OR, May 17-June 30 (two-person with Shannon Sullivan)

2018
"Bowery Gallery's 27th Annual Juried Show," Bowery Gallery, New York, NY (juror: Karen Wilkin), July 31-Aug 18
"Esteem: Artists and Mentors," Linn Benton Community College, North Santiam Galleries, Albany, OR, Jan 16-Mar 8
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