Elizabeth Gourlay

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 Tempos , Fox Gallery NYC, New York, New York New Work , ArtHelix, Brooklyn, New York 2013 Sogno , works on paper, The Chester Gallery, Chester , CT 2012 A Year Long Song , Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT 2011 Selected Paintings and Works on Paper , Brick Walk Fine Art, West Hartford, CT 2009 The Color of Harmony, The Gallery at Kinderhook, Salisbury, CT Meridians , eo art lab, Chester, CT 2008 New Work , Diane Birdsall G allery, Old Lyme, CT 2007 Rhythmic Relativism , eo art lab, Chester, CT Etudes , Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme, CT 2006 Saturated , Paesaggio Fine Art, Hartford, CT 2005 Grids and Gardens , Moira Fitzsimmons Arons Art Gallery, Hamden, CT New Work , Paesa ggio Fine Art, Hartford, CT 2004 A Chronology , Cummings Arts Center at Connecticut College, New London 2003 New Work , Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT 2002 The Chester Gallery, Chester, CT 2001 Recent Works, Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT 1991 Elizabeth Gourlay, Paintings, 369 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 State of Abstraction, curated by Daphne Anderson Deeds, Washington Art Association, Washington, Connecticut Among Friends, DUMBO, 55 Washington St, Brooklyn, New York Mighty Minis, curated by Suzan Shutan, Melanie Carr Gallery, Essex, Connecticut 2017 Big Idea, The Painting Center, New York, New York Abstract, curated by Susan Classen-Sullivan, The Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community College, Manchester, Connecticut Visual Impressions: Josephine Burr, Elizabeth Gourlay, Anna Helper and David Hornung, Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine Maniac Episode V, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut Becoming: 30 Hotchkiss Artists, The Tremain Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT Interplay: Joseph Byrne & Elizabeth Gourlay, curated by Ann Finholt and Walter Kendra, The Annual Maxwell Shepard Memorial Invitational exhibition, The Gallery on the Green, Canton, Connecticut Mighty Minis, curated by Suzan Shutan, Souterrain Gallery, West Cornwall, Connecticut Black Box, Boeckercontemporary, Heidelberg, Germany traveling to Centre d'art Contemporain, Metz, France 2016 Laura Moriarty and Elizabeth Gourlay, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York Featured flat-file artist for HUE[S]PACE, an installation by Debra Ramsay, ODETTA Gallery, 229 Cook Street, Brooklyn, New York Dristi: A Concentrated Gaze, curated by Elizabeth Heskin and Patricia Spergel, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York, New York Recursive Threads: Elizabeth Gourlay and Ann Stewart Conrad, The Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut 2nd Hand Pulled Print Exhibition, SITE:BROOKLYN, Brooklyn, New York Art & Design 20/21, Garvy Rita Art & Antiques, Boston, Massachusetts 4rth National Monotype Exhibition, The Monotype Guild of New England, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, Massachusetts 2015  Art on Paper , Gallery Molly Krom, Pier 26, New York  Seeing Sound , ODETTA, flat files, Brooklyn, New York  Lost Cat , Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, Massachu setts  Family Ties , 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas  Going Big , Central Booking, New York, New York   Evolution of Immediacy , Ball & Socket Arts, Cheshire, Connecticut  8th Annual Art & Design 20/21, Gar vy Rita Art & Antiques, Boston 2014  Second Family , curated b y Julie Torres, New York  Mid - Year Exhibition : 2013 - 2014, Nat ional Academy School, New York  Perception Illusion Magic, The Westport Art Center, Westport, CT Summer Sheets : Selected Works on Paper, Brick Walk Fine Art, West Hartford, CT The Boston Internatio nal Art Fair, Garv ey Rita Art & Antiques, Boston 2013 Working It Out , The Paint ing Center, New York Creative Mischief, The National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York Art Forms : An exhibition of Artist Fellowship Recipients, Constitution Pla za, Hartford, Connecticut SOLOS 2013 , The Westport Art Center, Westport, Connecticut New Work: Elizabeth Gourlay and Kevin Finklea, 91 Orange Street Gallery, Fred.Giampietro, New Haven, Connecticut 2012 Modesty : a Policy, The Bogart Salon, Brooklyn, New York Paper New England : A 5th Anniversary Look, Manchester Community College, Manchester, Connecticut 2011 Shared Sensibilities : Sol LeWitt and His Friends, The Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut An exchange with Sol LeWitt , Mass Moca, North Adams, Massachusetts Abstract Principles , Fairfield Art Center, Fairfield, Connecticut Out of Line , Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut Abstracted , DNA Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts Off the Grid: Selected Works on Paper by Elizabeth Gourlay and Peter Acheson, Brick Walk Fine Art, West Hartford, Connecticut Synesthesia , eo art lab, Chester, Connecticut Library Science , Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut 2009 Architectural Digest Show, New York, NY, eo art lab, Chester, CT 2008 183 rd Annual: An Invitational of Contemporary American Art , National Academy Museum & School of Fine Art New York  Focus New Haven , PNE, Paper New England, Hartford, Connecticut 2007 Blue Print , The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut 2005 Work from The LeWitt Colle ction , Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut 2004 Crossing the Line - Elizabeth Gourlay/Zach Zau s , Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT 2003 The 25th Annual Drawing Center Benefit Exhibition , The Drawing Center, New York 2002 Criss - Cross: Elizabeth Gourlay, Sol LeWitt, Ken Morgan, Cary Smith, Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, Connecticut 2001 Collecting at Paesaggio , Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, Connecticut 2000 4 Painters: 4 Women, Anderson University, Anderson, Indiana Connecticut Commission on The Arts Fellowship Exhibition , Hartford Sum + Substance, Widener Gall ery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 1997 Eclectic Landscapes , Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Co n necticut 1995 The Connecticut Open , Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut 1994 Measurement, Metaphor and Color, Maryland College of Art and Design, Silver Spring, Maryland 1990 Contemporary Still Life , The East Hampton Center For Contemporary Art, East Ham p ton, New York 1989 Curator’s Choice/New Directions , The Hecksher Museum, Huntington, New York 1988 The Drawing Show , 1988, The Koslow Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1986 Selections 34 , The Drawing Center, New York, New York    

James Panero, The New Criterion, Gallery cronicle, Tempos: Selected Works by Elizabeth Gourlay 2013 - 2015, Fox Gallery, NYC, November, 201 5.

Janis Mink, In Historical Context: Some thoughts about the work of Elizabeth Gourlay, Exhi bition catalog essay for Tempos: Selected Works by Elizabeth Gourlay 2013 - 2015, Fox Gallery NYC, October, 2015

Brett Baker, Painters' Table, Elizabeth Gourlay: Vision Images (December 26, 2013), Painting in Connecticut (December 10, 2012) , Elizabeth Gourl ay: Studio Visit (July 2, 2012).

Richard Benari and Lauren Henkin, Backstory: Elizabeth Gourlay, Tilted Arc, a journal of art, ideas, opinion and verse. (December 16), 2013

Stephen B MacInness, Have you met...Elizabeth Gourlay?, Painter's Progress, (Novemb er 18), 2013

Gorky's Granddaughter, documentary video interview with Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy, (May), 2012

Joanne Mattera, A Connecticut Afternoon, (November), 2012

Kristin Rasich Fox, Abstract Principles at the Fairfield Art Center, FC Buzz, Arts & Culture of Fairfield County, (September 21), 2011

Sharon Butler, Elizabeth Gourlay's Simple Means, Two Coats of Paint, (October 22), 2009

John Haber, The 2008 National Academy Annual, New.York.Art.Crit, (June 12), 2008

Steve Starger, Physical Culture : Abstracts by Elizabeth Gourlay, Zbigniew Grzyb, Letty Fonteyne, Elizabeth Macdermid and Pamela Stockamore, Art New England (December 2003/January 2004)

Patricia Rosoff, What am I supposed to think? How to read the abstraction of LeWitt, Gourlay, Morgan and Smith, The Hartford Advocate (September 5), 2002

Matt Damsker, Elizabeth Gourlay Evokes Emotion From Strictured Shapes, Hartford Courant (April 30), 2000

2012 – 13 Artist Fellowship Grant from the DECD/CT Office of the Arts 2011 Invited artist in residence, studio of Sol LeWitt, Spoleto, Italy 2007 Invited artist, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut 2006 Site - specific painting, The New London Cancer Center, Waterford, Connecticut 2003 Two site - specific wall drawings, The Ashforth Company,Stamford, CT 2000 - 2001 Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowship Grant 1986, 1988 & 1993 Fellowship Grant at The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont 1982 Fellowship at Yale/Norfolk Summer School of Music & Art, Norfolk, Connecticut 1981 & 1982 The Andrew Grant Traveling Scholarship, Edinburgh College of Art