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'''Elizabeth Neel''' (b. 1975, Stowe, Vermont) is an [[United States|American]] artist based in New York.
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'''Elizabeth Neel''' (born 1975 in Stowe, Vermont)<ref name="Salon 94">{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Neel |url=https://salon94.com/artists/elizabeth-neel/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231015234948/https://salon94.com/artists/elizabeth-neel/ |archive-date=15 October 2023 |access-date=3 June 2021 |website=[[Salon 94]]}}</ref> is an American artist based in New York.
 
==Life and work==
Elizabeth Neel received a BA from Brown University in 1997 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2007.<ref name="Artnet">{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Neel |url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/elizabeth-neel/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231015235246/https://www.artnet.com/artists/elizabeth-neel/ |archive-date=15 October 2023 |access-date=3 June 2021 |website=[[Artnet]]}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wheatley |first=Charmaine |date=February 2009 |title=Elizabeth Neel |journal=[[Border Crossings (magazine)|Border Crossings]] |location=Winnipeg |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=93–94}}</ref> She is the granddaughter of the painter [[Alice Neel]] (1900–1984) and the sister of filmmaker [[Andrew Neel]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Auder |first=Michel |date=22 May 2009 |others=Photography by Mario Sorrenti |title=Elizabeth Neel |url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/elizabeth-neel |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608161816/https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/elizabeth-neel |archive-date=8 June 2023 |access-date=16 October 2023 |website=[[Interview Magazine]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Studio International">{{cite web |last1=Palomar |first1=M. K. |date=20 May 2014 |title=Elizabeth Neel: Interview |url=https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/elizabeth-neel-interview |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231015235254/https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/elizabeth-neel-interview |archive-date=15 October 2023 |access-date=3 June 2021 |website=[[Studio International]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cascone |first=Sarah |date=23 August 2021 |title=Elizabeth Neel Grew Up Painting With Her Famous Grandmother. Now, Her New Abstractions Are Getting Attention in New York and London |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/elizabeth-neel-new-gallery-shows-new-york-london-1998639 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330004852/https://news.artnet.com/art-world/elizabeth-neel-new-gallery-shows-new-york-london-1998639 |archive-date=30 March 2023 |access-date=16 October 2023 |website=[[Artnet |Artnet News]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
Elizabeth Neel received a BA from Brown University in 1997 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2007.
 
[[Interview (magazine)|Interview Magazine]] describes Neel's work as "violent, gestural canvases that border on abstraction but are in actuality deeply rooted in the facts of the physical world".<ref name=":0" /> The author and critic John Reed describes Neel’s paintings as <blockquote>“boldly dismissive of distinctions between abstraction and representation. Landscape and figure grow out of abstraction, and at the same time, decay into abstraction—an abstraction that represents not so much the geometry of forms as the insanity of perceiving. In this new millennia of painting, Neel has distilled a methodology as fully cognizant of digital imagery and the position of the cinematic camera, as it is of the course of art history. “Every'Every painting I make is a reference to every painting made before”before,' says Neel." <ref>{{cite web |last=Reed |first=John |date=12 April 2005 |title=Elizabeth Neel |url=httphttps://wwweasyreeder.johnreedcom/home/writings/shorts/elizabeth-neel.tvhtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https:/Site/Criticismarchive.today/Entries20231016213208/2005https:/4/22_Elizabeth_Neeleasyreeder.com/home/writings/shorts/elizabeth-neel.html | lastarchive-date=Reed16 October 2023 |accessdate=12 firstJanuary 2010 |website=JohnEasy Reeder}}</ref></blockquote>Neel's work is included in the 2009 [[Phaidon Press|Phaidon]] datebook ''Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting'' by Robert Nickas.<ref>{{cite book |last=2005Nickas |first=Robert |title=ElizabethPainting NeelAbstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting |publisher=[[Phaidon accessdatePress]] |year=January2009 12,|isbn=9780714849331 2010}}{{dead|location=London link|datepages=November54–57 2014|language=en |oclc=390669726}}</ref>
Her biography includes solo exhibitions at Klemens Gasser and Tanja Grunert, Inc. (NY) 2005; Deitch Projects (NY) 2008; Monica De Cardenas Gallery (Milan) 2009; SculptureCenter (NY) 2010; Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (NY) 2011; Pilar Corrias Gallery (London) 2011. Her works have appeared in group exhibitions including ''Salon Nouveau'' (curated by Jasper Sharp), Engholm Engelhorn, Vienna; ''Abstract America'', [[Saatchi Gallery]], London; “A Seer Out of Season”, On Stellar Rays, New York; ''Cave Painting'' (curated by Bob Nickas), New York; "Purity is a Myth", Pilar Corrias Gallery, London; “Living with Art: Collecting Contemporary in Metro New York”, The Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, New York, and Prague Biennial 5 (curated by Nicola Trezzi).
 
In 2010, Fionn Meade curated a solo exhibition of Neel's work, entitled "''Stick Season"'', at SculptureCenter (Long Island City, NY). As described in the press release, "Elizabeth Neel's work relies on a controlled chaos that conflates a palimpsest-like understanding of imagery with a masterful facility for gestural mark making and layered abstraction. A new body of paintings on paper and sculptures extends this tension into three dimensions as found objects, natural artifacts, and studio detritus join with painterly technique to form a series of precarious assemblages. Incorporating organic and mechanistic references, Neel creates a hybrid iconography that tacks between mediums and moods. Resistant to facile representation, empirical observation and still life conventions mix with appropriated imagery, everyday objects, and abstraction in presenting a serial yet disjunctive ambience that is both playful and melancholy, archaic and spontaneous."<ref>{{cite web |date=2010 |title=Elizabeth Neel: Stick Season |url=http://sculpture-center.org/exhibitionsExhibition.htm?id=73543 | publisherurl-status=SculptureCenter.orglive | title=Elizabeth Neel: Stick Season | accessdate=November 26, 2014 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.orgtoday/web20231016000147/20120314094633/httphttps://www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitionsExhibition.htm?idexhibitions/3367/stick-season |archivedate=7354316 October 2023 |accessdate=26 archivedate=MarchNovember 14,2014 |website=Sculpture 2012Center}}</ref>
The author and critic John Reed describes Neel’s paintings as “boldly dismissive of distinctions between abstraction and representation. Landscape and figure grow out of abstraction, and at the same time, decay into abstraction—an abstraction that represents not so much the geometry of forms as the insanity of perceiving. In this new millennia of painting, Neel has distilled a methodology as fully cognizant of digital imagery and the position of the cinematic camera, as it is of the course of art history. “Every painting I make is a reference to every painting made before”, says Neel." <ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.johnreed.tv/Site/Criticism/Entries/2005/4/22_Elizabeth_Neel.html | last=Reed | first=John | date=2005 | title=Elizabeth Neel | accessdate=January 12, 2010}}{{dead link|date=November 2014}}</ref>
 
In 2011 Neel's work was in the fifth [[Prague Biennale]].<ref name="Artnet"/> Sikkema Jenkins & Co. held an exhibit, “3 and 4 before 2 and 5,” of Neel's work in 2013.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gat |first=Orit |date=1 April 2013 |title=Pay Attention: Elizabeth Neel Fills Space |journal=[[Modern Painters (magazine)|Modern Painters]] |volume=25 |issue=4 |pages=24 |issn=0953-6698}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=October 2013 |title=10 Questions... about painting |journal=[[Flash Art|Flash Art International]] |volume=46 |issue=292 |pages=87, 90 |issn=0394-1493}}</ref> [[Vielmetter Los Angeles]] hosted Neel's 2015 exhibit, "Lobster with Shell Game."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=Elizabeth Neel: Lobster with Shell Game |url=https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2015-05-elizabeth-neel-lobster-with-shell-game/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920122208/https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2015-05-elizabeth-neel-lobster-with-shell-game/ |archive-date=20 September 2021 |access-date=16 October 2023 |website=[[Vielmetter Los Angeles]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Johnson |first=Grant |date=September 2015 |title=Elizabeth Neel |journal=[[Modern Painters (magazine)|Modern Painters]] |volume=27 |issue=9 |pages=107 |issn=0953-6698}}</ref> The Vielmetter Los Angeles has hosted a number of other exhibts of Neel's works as well including the 2012 "Elizabeth Neel: Routes and Pressures,"<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012 |title=Elizabeth Neel: Routes and Pressures |url=https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2012-04-elizabeth-neel-routes-and-pressures/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920113750/https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2012-04-elizabeth-neel-routes-and-pressures/ |archive-date=20 September 2021 |access-date=16 October 2023 |website=[[Vielmetter Los Angeles]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Routes And Pressures |url=https://www.widewalls.ch/auction-artwork/elizabeth-neel-routes-and-pressures |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231016234443/https://www.widewalls.ch/auction-artwork/elizabeth-neel-routes-and-pressures |archive-date=16 October 2023 |access-date=16 October 2023 |website=Widewalls |language=en |quote=Exhibition history: Los Angeles, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Routes and Pressures, April 7 - May 12, 2012}}</ref> the 2017 "Elizabeth Neel: Claw Hammer,"<ref>{{Cite web |last=Miranda |first=Carolina A. |date=11 May 2017 |title=Datebook: Building upon the Woman's Building, U.S. embassies on canvas, a non-stop performance |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-datebook-womans-building-enoc-perez-20170510-htmlstory.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231016231940/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-datebook-womans-building-enoc-perez-20170510-htmlstory.html |archive-date=16 October 2023 |access-date=16 October 2023 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017 |title=Elizabeth Neel: Claw Hammer |url=https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2017-04-elizabeth-neel-claw-hammer/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927002751/https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2017-04-elizabeth-neel-claw-hammer/ |archive-date=27 September 2021 |access-date=16 October 2023 |website=[[Vielmetter Los Angeles]] |language=en-US}}</ref> the 2020 "Elizabeth Neel: Life in Halves,"<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020 |title=Elizabeth Neel: Life in Halves |url=https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/elizabeth-neel-life-in-halves/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528172936/https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/elizabeth-neel-life-in-halves/ |archive-date=28 May 2023 |access-date=16 October 2023 |website=[[Vielmetter Los Angeles]] |language=en-US}}</ref> and the late 2023 "Elizabeth Neel: The Ghosts of my Friends."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elizabeth Neel: Exhibitions |url=https://vielmetter.com/artists/elizabeth-neel/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208065805/https://vielmetter.com/artists/elizabeth-neel/ |archive-date=8 February 2023 |access-date=16 October 2023 |website=[[Vielmetter Los Angeles]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2010, Fionn Meade curated a solo exhibition of Neel's work, entitled "Stick Season", at SculptureCenter (Long Island City, NY). As described in the press release, "Elizabeth Neel's work relies on a controlled chaos that conflates a palimpsest-like understanding of imagery with a masterful facility for gestural mark making and layered abstraction. A new body of paintings on paper and sculptures extends this tension into three dimensions as found objects, natural artifacts, and studio detritus join with painterly technique to form a series of precarious assemblages. Incorporating organic and mechanistic references, Neel creates a hybrid iconography that tacks between mediums and moods. Resistant to facile representation, empirical observation and still life conventions mix with appropriated imagery, everyday objects, and abstraction in presenting a serial yet disjunctive ambience that is both playful and melancholy, archaic and spontaneous."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://sculpture-center.org/exhibitionsExhibition.htm?id=73543 | publisher=SculptureCenter.org | title=Elizabeth Neel: Stick Season | accessdate=November 26, 2014 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314094633/http://sculpture-center.org/exhibitionsExhibition.htm?id=73543 | archivedate=March 14, 2012}}</ref>
 
Neel's work is included in the 2009 Phaidon book "Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting" by Bob Nickas.<ref>{{cite book | title=Painting Abstraction | last=Nickas | first=Bob | publisher=Phaidon | year=2009 | pages=54-57}}</ref>
 
She is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York, [[Pilar Corrias Gallery]] in London, and Monica de Cardenas Gallery in Milan.
 
The [[Iconoclasm|iconoclastic]] [[United States|American]] portrait painter [[Alice Neel]] (1900–1984) was her grandmother.
 
==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.artuner.com/artists/elizabeth-neel/ images of Neel's work] on Arturner
* http://sculpture-center.org/exhibitionsExhibition.htm?id=73543
* http[https://nyccurrentseason.blogspotocula.com/2010/10artists/elizabeth-neels-stick-seaso-n-at.htmlneel/ images of Neel's work] on Ocula
* http[https://www.pilarcorrias.com/#/artists/50-elizabeth-neel/ images of Neel's work] on Pilar Corrias Gallery
* [httphttps://www.saatchi-gallerysaatchigallery.co.ukcom/artistsartist/elizabeth_neel.htm Elizabethimages of Neel's atwork] theon Saatchi Gallery]
* http://deitch.com/artists/sub.php?artistId=36
 
* http://www.monicadecardenas.com/artists_detail.php?id=52
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* http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/2008-elisabeth-neel-deitch-projects/1691
* http://www.artreview.com/forum/topic/show?id=1474022%3ATopic%3A941194
* http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=artisti_det&id_art=173&det=ok&nome_artista=NEEL-ELIZABETH
*[http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/elizabeth_neel.htm Elizabeth Neel at the Saatchi Gallery]
 
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