Winner of the Art Contest: "Expressions of Gender Equity and Feminism", organized by the Community Art Channel. Elizabeth Eve King is one of the winners of the second place award, which has been awarded to two participants. 

Biography

Elizabeth Eve King’s art has been collected internationally.

She’s worked as an artist-in-residence in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sarajevo and Bosnia and was an advisor to the J. Paul Getty Museum and Science Center and headed their Arts & Science Development Program.

She received various international and national fellowships for art and environmental research projects.

Among her fellowships are two International Tides Painting Fellowships and two Earthwatch Fellowships. She served as Science and Art Coordinator with the Global Children’s Organization (GCO), working in a Bosnian summer camp for war orphans.

Her landmark mural, A Meeting of the Minds (121’ x 33’) can be seen on Mercado La Paloma in Los Angeles.

Artist Statement

I believe the same skills one uses to understand science are those used for art. Impartial observation of what is there. Then, I concentrate to see the underlying colors and shades in each white wall or dark shadow.

I think painting is all light and shadow. Color and light.

When composing a picture, diagonal shapes, light, or lines will guide your eye through the painting.

All colors absorb light reflecting a single hue back to the observer, except black. Black absorbs all light. It rarely occurs in nature, and only then in minerals. I never use black paint, instead I use mixtures of umber, acra and phalo blue which look dark, but unlike black draws the viewer into the painting. I think pure black stops the eye.

White reflects all color. Look at a “white” wall and concentrate. You will see browns, blues, yellows, magentas, and infinite shades of reality.

In creating my paintings, I apply thick paint with brushes. Sometimes I use a buildup of spackle. I prefer thick acrylics and love iridescent paints.

In my work, I make detail as intrinsic a part of the painting as the focal point. Live is not simple, emotionally, or visually.

Artworks