"Veiled #21" Painting

Elisa Carozza is a Philadelphia area based painter. Her symbolist landscapes take inspiration from patterns and movement in nature, as well as archetypal elements and symbols. The resulting atmosphere and imagery of the paintings narrate a personal mythology of her life experiences.

Carozza grew up in the greater Philadelphia area and studied privately with artists including Diana Dowek, Alfredo Benavidez Bedoya, and Ann Balbirnie in their studios both in the United States and Buenos Aires, Argentina, before enrolling at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia receiving her B.F.A. in 1998. 

In the Fall of 1999, a cross country journey took her to Northern California where she was impressed deeply by the wild beauty of the landscape and developed and exhibited several series of landscape paintings, including the Pond and Rooted series as well as local vineyard paintings. In 2006, after seven years in bucolic Sonoma County, she moved south to Oakland, in a swing back to city life, invigorated by the energy of flux and blossoming potential in the city. Carozza co-founded and operated a custom frame shop and art gallery with ex-husband Travis Kuhl in downtown Oakland for 13 years. While in the Bay Area, Elisa developed and exhibited the Threshold, Flights and Veiled series. In late 2020, another relocation to Bend, Oregon spawned the "Mosaic Range" series of paintings inspired by the snowy mountain landscape and bright high desert light. Carozza began another series, “Cuevas", featuring a hybrid of previous themes of natural elements but with a fiery palette and addition of new forms and symbols.  Elisa returned to the Philadelphia area in 2022 and continues to develop her "Cuevas" series, as well as the latest body of abstracts “Botanica”, a series inspired by flora and foliage, entanglements of wild gardens, underwater meadows, jungles and forests.