Port Jefferson Yellow Trees, October 2019 Print

Born and raised in rural NH, Lizzie Harris McCormick is a painter living and working year-round on Long Island’s beautiful east end. She studied painting and visual art seriously from a very young age, and was fortunate to study with renowned artists including painter Rochelle Feinstein, muralist Christina Schlesinger, ceramicist Barry Bartlett, choreographer Dana Reitz, and performance artist Dan Hurlin. Her creative studies at Phillips Exeter Academy and Bennington College included, in addition to painting, dance and lighting design, both of which inform her understanding of motion, rhythm, color, and light. She paints the dynamic landscapes of New York's Hamptons and North Fork in plein air when the weather cooperates or turns to energetic abstracts and cold wax painting in her studio. Her current project, supported by a competitively-awarded sabbatical grant from Suffolk County Community College, is *Wolf Bride* -- a “wordless novel” in the Modernist tradition comprised of woodcuts, linocuts, drawings and large oil paintings. It's based on Finnish-Estonian author Aino Kallas's 1929 Modernist novel *Sudenmorsian.* Alongside her artistic life, she built a career as a Literature Professor, earning a Ph.D. in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. However, as painting is her first love, even her published literary work centers around narratives of artistic creation and the psychological phenomena of perception in classic "studio fictions" such as Wilde's *Dorian Grey*. She is a Professor of English at Suffolk County Community College. She was also creator and co-editor of *The Female Fantastic: Gendering the Supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s." (Routledge, 2018).