Lot 28
ELIZABETH HUEY(B. 1971)Otherworldly Oblivion, 2024
13 – 27 February 2025, 17:00 PST
Online, Los AngelesUS$4,000 - US$6,000
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ELIZABETH HUEY (B. 1971)
Otherworldly Oblivion, 2024
signed, titled and dated (on the reverse)
acrylic and oil on canvas
36 x 30 in.
91.4 x 76.2 cm.
signed, titled and dated (on the reverse)
acrylic and oil on canvas
36 x 30 in.
91.4 x 76.2 cm.
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Courtesy of the artist
Born in Virginia, Elizabeth Huey is a painter based in Los Angeles, California. Huey earned an MFA in Painting from Yale University after receiving a BA in Psychology from George Washington University. Additionally, she studied painting at the Marchutz School in Aix-en-Provence, France and the New York Studio School in Manhattan. Huey has been awarded multiple grants and residencies including the Terra Foundation Residency in Giverny, France, a Johns Hopkins University Travel Fellowship, the Artist Research Fellowship from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., and the Alma B Shapiro Artist Residency from Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Elizabeth Huey's paintings explore human connection and healing. Born from a substratum of expressive paint, the architectural and figural elements in her work hail from a multiplicity of styles and eras. Huey draws imagery from her own photographs as well as an ever-expanding collection of found snapshots. Historical research is employed to delve into the complexities of her subjects. Driven to depict the inner motivations of the heroic, Huey's paintings are portraits of the miraculous. The spatial arrangements and scale shifts support a hypnagogic sense of seeing things from the inside out. One gets the sense that myriad forces are at work in the minds of each protagonist. Ultimately, Huey's paintings are about remembrance and reconstruction: a totemic reminder of our human capacity to overcome trauma and draw invention and intimacy from catastrophe.