The Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack presents “Sundown,” an exhibition of recent paintings by Elizabeth Hazan, on view in the summer studio from April 1 through May 6.
Elizabeth Hazan, an artist who mines the fertile territory between abstraction and representation, spent a significant period of her childhood on the East End of Long Island, surrounded by the open farm fields moments from the ocean, but also by the palpable history of painting – the action and color field paintings of the abstract expressionists and the concurrent avantgarde landscape painters.
In Hazan’s work, painted as if hovering from above, time and space are collapsed into a heightened version of nature truer to experience, both internal and external. Imagery is a mixture of invention and recollection; meandering lines, both intuitive and decisive, loop the canvas loosely containing the soft-edge, idiosyncratic fields of rich color.
Elizabeth Hazan was born and raised in New York City and received a BA from Bryn Mawr College. She attended The New York Studio School and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and has twice been a resident of Yaddo. Solo and two-person exhibitions include Heatwave at Johannes Vogt in NYC in 2019, High Noon at Duck Creek in Springs, in 2021, and Body to Land at Turn Gallery in NYC in 2020. Her work has been included in recent exhibitions at Eric Firestone Gallery, Morgan Lehman Gallery, and The National Arts Club. She is the founder of Platform Project Space in Brooklyn, featuring exhibitions of fellow contemporary artists.
Madoo is open to the public Fridays and Saturdays from 12 to 4 PM and by appointment. Register at madoo.org/visit.