Elizabeth Malaska, Still Life on War Rug, 2016, oil, Flashe, charcoal, and graphite on canvas (2017)
“Protest is a fundamental reason I paint. Protest against sexism, against the status quo, against what I should be doing” – Elizabeth Malaska (Oregon Arts Commission)
Elizabeth Malaska, They Took Me and Split Me Open From Scalp to Crotch, and Still I’m Alive, and Walk Around Pleased With the Sun and All the World’s Bounty, 2011, oil, gesso, charcoal & pencil on tea-stained canvas, 60 x 47″
Elizabeth Malaska, Maidens, 2019, oil, Flashe, charcoal, and pencil on canvas, 60×84″
[image_with_animation image_url=”7362″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Sometimes I Google dumb things. For instance, I was wondering if I felt like doing a study of cloth in linocut. Instead of hanging a towel from a nail in the wall and lighting it, I armchaired my idea and Googled it. I was looking for pictures of hanging …
We’re doing a fun series of sketches in “Abstracting the Image” on Thursdays. Each week we’re taking a masterwork and exploring it with approaches inspired by contemporary abstract painters. The purpose of this exercise is to be able to lean on, and learn from the composition of the masterwork, while exploring a variety of ways …
Elizabeth Malaska
“Protest is a fundamental reason I paint. Protest against sexism, against the status quo, against what I should be doing” – Elizabeth Malaska (Oregon Arts Commission)
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