Eliza Douglas
Eliza Douglas (* 1984 in New York City ) is an American painter, conceptual artist , musician and performer . She lives in Frankfurt am Main .
life and work
After studying in the film class at Bard College in New York , Douglas studied at the Städelschule in the classes of Monika Baer , Willem de Rooij , and Amy Sillman .
Douglas reoriented himself artistically at the Städelschule and opted for the painting class. She conceived two large-format picture series with recurring motifs, one of which is conceptual, the other is painterly. For the series I am a Fireball , she has Chinese reproduction painters create realistic paintings based on her designs. “... bare-chested young men look directly at the viewer, but with expressionless expressions. You are in rooms that lack any personal detail ... ”In doing so, she follows artistic models like Martin Kippenberger , who used a similar strategy. In the second large-format series of images, Douglas paints realistically portrayed hands (rarely also feet), which dissolve into shapes and colors in a disembodied painterly manner on a white background and are reminiscent of grotesquely elongated arms and legs.
Douglas is an actor and co-designer of the performative works of her partner Anne Imhof , where she appeared at Angst II in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin and at Faust at the Venice Biennale . During her studies she occasionally worked as a model for the fashion label Balenciaga, among others . Between 2009 and 2014 she was an assistant to various artists such as Nick Mauss (* 1980) and Antony Hegarty (Anohni). She plays the lead role in a music video for Anohni's song Paradise .
Exhibitions
- 2016: I am All Soul , Air de Paris, Paris
- 2017: My Gleaming Soul , Museum Folkwang , Essen
- 2017: My Gleaming Soul and I am a Fireball , Nassauischer Kunstverein , Wiesbaden
- 2017: Overduin & Co., Los Angeles
- 2017: Eliza Douglas Anne Imhof , Buchholz Gallery , New York
- 2017: Old Tissues Filled with Tears , Schinkel Pavillon , Berlin
Web links
- Eliza Douglas at Kunstaspekte.de
- Website of the Folkwang Museum
- Interview: Eliza Douglas about her work, outsourcing and her model life . In: Wiesbadener Kurier from May 25, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katinka Fischer: Up close . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from June 4, 2017, page R5
- ↑ Nathaniel Cunningham: Eliza Douglas: My Gleaming Soul / I am a Fireball . Website of the Nassau Art Association
- ↑ Myartguides.com website
- ↑ Eliza Douglas on Dandydiary.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Douglas, Eliza |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter, conceptual artist, musician and performer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |