Current Shows
• Ongoing, "Elisabeth Scheidl Paintings",INSIDE, 149 Gough St, SF, CA Inside
• Ongoing, 290 Townsend, SF/Seattle/...Los Angeles opening soon LIMN Gallery
UPCOMING
• "FRESH WOMEN" A Film by Michael Whalen
Stay Tuned for Upcoming Film Screenings at Documentary Film Festivals and Public Television website>
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Artist Statement
The intent of my paintings is to express connections and processes of nonliteral thought and memory through abstracted flowcharts and schematic diagrams.
This body of work began over five years ago, deriving from my experience in industrial and information design,
where visual organization of information is a central process. Rather than relying on facts and figures to create order, the paintings use layers of texture and color to reveal paths and patterns that might organize the inexpressible.
I usually prefer to paint on square surfaces. I think this allows the piece to develop free from the spatial constraints of a perceived horizon. It lets the visual plane hang in a balance between vertical elevation and birds-eye view.
I intentionally keep my paintings devoid of imagery that would specify scale. This allows me to express a paradoxical point of view that is both close-up and far away.
My work is currently nonexclusively represented by LIMN Gallery, in San Francisco, Seattle and upcoming in Los Angeles and INSIDE in San Francisco
see recent paintings>
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Resume
Elisabeth Scheidl San Francisco, CA | (415)822-1799 | es-arts@earthlink.net | www.es-arts.com
Born 1968, New Jersey
Education
1986-90 Rhode
Island School of Design; Providence, RI; BFA
Industrial Design
1992-93 Pratt
Institute; Brooklyn,
NY; Postgraduate
Fine Art Studies
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Dolores Park Cafe ; SF, CA
2006-7 Inside; SF, CA ; PAINTINGS
2004 LIMN Gallery; SF, CA ; Elisabeth Scheidl - New Work
2006 Dolores Park Cafe ; SF, CA
2003 The Atlas; San Francisco, CA; Fragments and Tendrils
2002 The Atlas; San Francisco, CA; E.Scheidl Paintings
2002 Perrys
Joint; San Francisco, CA; Mind Maps
1990 West Caldwell Public
Library; NJ; Paintings
Group Exhibitions
2008 Mina Dresden Gallery ; SF; "One Night Stand ", Risd Alumni Show
2008 Dolores Park Cafe ; SF; "The Longest Day", Fresh Women Group Show
2007 SCU Arts & Sciences Building ; Santa Clara, CA; "FRESH WOMEN " (art exhibit with Film)
2002-7 LIMN Gallery; San Francisco, Seattle , Los Angeles; Paintings (ongoing rotating exhibition)
2006 Space Gallery ; San Francisco, CA; "Artists at SPACE GALLERY"
2006 SOMARTS; San Francisco, CA; Open Studios Exhibition
2006 Studio Gallery ; San Francisco, CA; FRESH Women "Studio"
2006 Space Gallery ; San Francisco, CA; FRESH Women "Concealed/ Revealed"
2006 ArtsFestSF; San Francisco, CA; Spectra Ball Exhibit
2005 Red Ink Studios ; San Francisco, CA; FRESH Women
2005 SOMARTS; San Francisco, CA; Open Studios Exhibition
2005 The Auk ; Hamden, NY; "Dry Goods"
2005 California Modern ; San Francisco, CA; Paintings (ARTSPAN Annual Auction)
2004 Propeller; San Francisco, CA; Group Show
2004 ICAN Gallery; San Francisco, CA; Open Studios 2004
2004 SomArts; San Francisco, CA; Exhibition Open Studios 2004
2003 Studio G; San Francisco, CA; Open Studios 2003
2003 Start SOMA; San Francisco, CA; Start/Lola Collaboration Show
2003 SomArts; San Francisco, CA; Art Auction 03
2003 ArtVan SF; San Francisco, CA; Art Liberation
2003 LIMN Gallery; SF, CA; Abstract-ED
2003 The Lola Gallery; SF, CA; Hibernia
2003 gallery >go<; SF, CA; Invention in Color
2003 The Lola Gallery; SF, CA; 21st Century
2002 The Lola Gallery; SF, CA; Bizarre Bazaar
2002 The Melting Point Gallery; SF, CA; Embedded Environments
2002 SomArts; San Francisco, CA; ArtAuction02
2002 ArtVan SF; San Francisco, CA; Art Liberation
2001 Fort
Mason City College of SF; Semi
Annual Art Show & Sale
2000 Novo Media; SF,
CA; Lounge
1989 Woods-Gerry Gallery;
Providence, RI; Out of Department
Show
Bibliography
Artweek; June 2004; Colin Berry, "Jaq Chartier & Elisabeth Scheidl LIMN Gallery"; Review
Artweek; May 2003; Laura Richard Janku, "Abstrac-ted at LIMN Gallery"; Review
RISD Views; Winter-Spring 2003; Alumni Association News
Designing Furniture, Seth Stem; Taunton Press, 1989
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Stay Tuned for:
"FRESH WOMEN" , a film by Michael Whalen
upcoming screenings at Documentary Film Festivals & Public Television
Fresh Women is a feature documentary that follows the lives of six female artists in San Francisco
all struggling with the idea of becoming a working artist while also being a wife, mother, and/or career woman. Follow each woman as she strives to discover the balance in life between her passion for art, her need to meet her and her family’s expectations and society’s expectations.
Michael Whalen has been writing, producing and directing documentaries for 12 years.
His credits include Another First Step, SFMOMA: The Building of a Modern Museum and episodes from the Biography, Ancient Mysteries and Super Structures series on A&E and The Discovery Channel.
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