Elise Richman
Primary Medium: Paint
Other media: Sculpture
Email: emrichman (at) hotmail (dot) com
Website: http://www.eliserichman.com
Artist Statement
You cannot solder an Abyss
With Air.
-Emily Dickenson
My paintings explore the relationship between engaging in an artistic process, evoking a sense of place, and expressing time's passage. I pool, stack, scrape, scrub, pour, stain, drip, collage, and fuse oil, acrylic, and encaustic paint, engaging in processes that reflect forces of nature and capture a state of flux.
In a sense, my work explores and even challenges aspects of landscape painting. I create organic environments that protrude from rather from than recede into space. Their surfaces are body like membranes and map like topographies.
Each layered piece exhibits the history of its making, which acts as a layered metaphor for time's passage. Landscapes embody geological time just as psychological topographies bear the imprint of time passed through the course of generations.
Other media: Sculpture
Email: emrichman (at) hotmail (dot) com
Website: http://www.eliserichman.com
Artist Statement
You cannot solder an Abyss
With Air.
-Emily Dickenson
My paintings explore the relationship between engaging in an artistic process, evoking a sense of place, and expressing time's passage. I pool, stack, scrape, scrub, pour, stain, drip, collage, and fuse oil, acrylic, and encaustic paint, engaging in processes that reflect forces of nature and capture a state of flux.
In a sense, my work explores and even challenges aspects of landscape painting. I create organic environments that protrude from rather from than recede into space. Their surfaces are body like membranes and map like topographies.
Each layered piece exhibits the history of its making, which acts as a layered metaphor for time's passage. Landscapes embody geological time just as psychological topographies bear the imprint of time passed through the course of generations.
Selected Works
|  Isle - 2008 - oil on panel - 12 x 12 inches This dimensional oil painting involves stacked, palpable, discrete beads of paint and layered glazes.  San Juan - 2009 - encaustic, plaster, fabric, wood - 4 x 3 feet Shaped, sculptural painting  Horizon I - 2008 - Acrylic on Panel - 10 x 10 inches Dimensional painting which combines multiple, palpable pieces of paint and transparent glazes |
Artist Bio
Elise M. Richman
emrichman@hotmail.com
Education
American University, Washington, DC
MFA in painting, 2001
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
BFA in painting, 1995
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2011
New Work, Manzmanian Gallery, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
2010
For the Birds, The Telephone Room, Tacoma, WA
2008
The Island, Kittredge Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2007
Force of Nature, Gallery 4 Culture, Seattle, WA
2006
No Man's Land, Shift Studio, Seattle, WA
2005
New Work, Kittredge Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2004
Paintings and Prints, Priceless Works Gallery, Seattle, WA
New Paintings, Elizabeth Roberts Gallery, Washington, DC
2003
New Paintings, Elizabeth Roberts Gallery, Washington, DC
Color and Mark, Gudelesky Gallery, Silver Spring, MD
2002
Flicker, Studio 7, Washington, DC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
CultureScape, Addison Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC (curator Isabel Manalo)
Build-Up, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, (curator Michelle Forsyth)
Bloom and Collapse, SOIL, Seattle, WA, (curators Susanna Bluhm and Amanda Manitach)
2010
Versus the Matador, SOIL, Seattle, WA
Re-Vision, Katzen Center for the Arts, Washington, DC
Kirkland Arts Center Invitational, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA (curator Cable Griffith)
Northwest Mid-Career Artists, Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009
Under Construction, Fulcrum Gallery, Tacoma, WA
Forces and Formations (curator), Soil, Seattle, WA
Hello, Telephone Room, Tacoma, WA
2008
Observations and Perceptions, Fulcrum Gallery, Tacoma, WA
Pacific Northwest Annual, Adell McMillan Gallery, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
50/50=100%, Montgomery College Gallery , Silver Spring, MD
2007
Double Vision (curator), Shift Studio, Seattle, WA
2006
Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, Curator: Jennifer Gately
Artist Trust Exhibition, Chase Gallery, Spokane, WA
Studio Montclair National Juried Exhibition, Ben Shahn Gallery, Wayne, NJ, Juror: Donald Kuspit
2005
New Members Exhibit, Shift Studio, Seattle, WA
2004
Group Show, Priceless Works Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003
Northwest Fine Arts Competition, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA, Juror: Francine Seders
2002
Shared Spaces 411 Art Associates, Marlboro Gallery, Prince George's County Community College
Faculty Exhibition, Gudelesky Gallery, Silver Spring, MD
ArtRomp, Studio 7, Washington, DC
2001
MCAD Faculty Exhibit, The University of the Arts , Philadelphia, PA
Adjunct!, Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC
Academy 2001, Conner Contemporary Art Gallery, Washington, DC
Fresh, 901 E Street Gallery, Washington, DC, Curator: Annie Gawlak
Group Exhibition, Eye Street Gallery, Washington, DC
National Society of Arts and Letters Small Sculpture Exhibit, Watkins Gallery, Washington, DC
Articles
•November 14, 2008, UPS Gallery Serves Up Fulfilling Feast for the Eyes, Rosemary Ponnekanti, The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA)
•November 6, 2008, Kittredge Exhibits Explore Natural World, Dave R. Davison, Tacoma Weekly (Tacoma, WA)
•June 12, 2007, The Stranger Suggests, Jen Graves, The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
•June 29, 2007, The Weekly Wire, Rachel Shimp, The Seattle Weekly (Seattle, WA)
•December 8, 2007, Seattleites are Standouts in Otherwise Flat COCA Annual, Matthew Kangas, The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
• September 16, 2004, Nowhere in Particular, Jeffrey Cudlin, Washington City Paper, (Washington, DC)
• September 16, 2004, Galleries: Reconnecting with Old Acquaintances, Glenn Dixon, The Washington Post (Washington, DC)
• March 20, 2003, Stand-Out Paintings, Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post (Washington, DC)
• February 19, 2003, Magical Works at the Gudelesky Gallery, Claudia Rousseau, The Montgomery County Gazette (Silver Spring, MD)
• September 19, 2002, Galleries, Jessica Dawson, Washington Post (Washington, DC)
• September 13, 2002, Artifacts: Ab