Elizabeth Glick

I avoided calling myself an artist for many years, probably because my mother was a painter and printmaker, and I didn't want to follow. Instead, I first turned to pottery, a profession whose inherent earthiness satisfied me in many ways and was a natural extension of my interest in gardening, bread baking, Spanish earthenware pottery, and the tactile qualities of almost everything. And I liked making useful things.

But I always painted and drew, from earliest childhood, occasionally winning an award or working as art editor of a school publication. I did a few portraits of my children, decorated some of my pottery, and took a few classes. But when my father died in 1999, I was suddenly seized with a powerful drive to really paint, different from the impulse to dabble. Within a year I had given up pottery entirely, rented a studio, and was exhibiting and selling work.

It’s very hard for me to explain why I paint or what my goals are. I always end up boring people to death talking about the process of what I do—how I mix colors, how I get lost in a mindless reverie, how I never know when starting out where a painting will take me. Of course, perhaps a painting is inspired by the sea, or by a great sadness, or by the hi...

EDUCATION
BA, English Literature (Music and Art History minors), Swarthmore College, High Honors, 1961

MA, Boston University, Spanish Literature and Translation, 1990

Certificate in Ceramics, Worcester Center for Crafts, 1991

Also studied ceramics at Rhode Island College. Studied painting with Michael Dowling at Danforth Museum School, and with Elizabeth Dworkin at Massachusetts College of Art, and Drawing and Figure Drawing at Mass College of Art.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS, PAINTING
2017:Borders and Shtetls II (withThomas Glick), Hebrew Senior Life, Roslindale (June-July)
2017: Borders and Shtetls, (with Thomas Glick), Common Street Spiritual Center, Natick (March-April)
2013: Archways, Galatea Fine Arts Gallery, Harrison Avenue, Boston
2011: In and Out of Focus, Galatea Fine Arts Gallery, Harrison Avenue, Boston
2009: New Visions, Emerging Artist Series, Arsenal Arts Center, Watertown (Feb-March)
2008: Places I’ve Been, Medicine Wheel Art Gallery, South Boston;
Recent Work, (2 person show with Michael Frassinelli), Amazing Things Art Center, Framingham;
Water, one of three special invitational exhibits at Medicine Wheel, Michael Dowling’s annual installation at the Boston Center for the Arts
2005: The Edge of Abstraction, Danforth Museum School Round Room Gallery, Framingham, Massachusetts
2003: Recent Work, Danforth Museum School Round Room Gallery, Framingham, Massachusetts
2002: Recent Work, Bakery on the Common, (a satellite gallery of the Natick Center for the Arts), Natick, Massachusetts
2001: Recent Work, Borders Book Store, Framingham, Massachusetts

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PAINTING
2017: Projections II, Jamaica Plain Arts Council, Jamai...