ELIZABETH HAZAN
Cherry, 2023. Fifteen color lithograph. 31.5 x 27 in. Edition of 25.
CHERRY, 2023
Elizabeth Hazan’s abstracted landscape “Cherry” creates a space where bold colors push through the forms, charging the picture with bursts of energy. Before the artist and I began working on the lithograph, I had visited her studio and realized the evident graphic quality to the marks in her paintings. She was also very specific and involved in the color mixing. She was thinking about the “architecture” of the painting, and how it would all fit together. I saw that her painting process is analogous to printmaking in its “one move at a time” character. Later, when she began working on the lithograph at Jungle Press, her drawing of each color was very quick and direct. In between printing the colors, she would spend a long time looking at the picture before the next move. New colors and plates were added until the completed composition emerged. As the print developed, I saw her color sensibility reveal itself. The result is a playful hybrid of imagined form and movement
– Andrew Mockler
Elizabeth Hazan is a New York based visual artist. Her aerial landscape paintings mix gestural topography with elements of modernist abstraction. The work depicts a heightened version of nature off-kilter, evoking a charged atmosphere, familiar to the viewer yet verging on the surreal.
Hazan was awarded a fellowship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has twice been a resident of Yaddo. Recent shows include High Noon, at the Duck Creek Art Center inSprings, NY, Heat Wave at Johannes Vogt Gallery, NY, Body to Land at Turn Gallery, NY, Psychedelic Landscape at Eric Firestone Gallery, NY, Sundown, at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack, NY and Trodden Path at Hesse Flatow East, in Amagansett, NY. Upcoming is a solo show Spring ’24 at Hesse Flatow, NY. Her work has been written about in Hyperallergic, Forbes, Two Coats of Paint, Art Critical, The Brooklyn Rail and the Art Newspaper. She was born and raised in New York City and attended Bryn Mawr College and the New York Studio School. She serves as the director and founder of Platform Project Space in Brooklyn, NY.