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Elizabeth Geiger

Borrowed Rhythms

March 2023

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Green Table Still Life With Jug And Zinnias  32" x 28"  Oil On Linen

Green Table Still Life With Jug And Zinnias

32" x 28"

Oil On Linen

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Orange And Blue Still Life With Sculpture  40" x 40"  Oil On Linen

Orange And Blue Still Life With Sculpture (SOLD)

40" x 40"

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Side Table Still Life  42" x 36"  Oil On Linen

Side Table Still Life

42" x 36"

Oil On Linen

 

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Still Life after Picasso and De Heem  52" x 69"  Oil On Linen

Still Life After Picasso And De Heem

52" x 69"

Oil On Linen

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Still Life After Van Schooten  28" x 34"  Oil On Linen

Still Life After Van Schooten 

28" x 34"

Oil On Linen

 

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Still Life After Van Steenwyck And Picasso  30" x 32"  Oil On Linen

Still Life After Van Steenwyck And Picasso

30" x 32"

Oil On Linen

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Still Life with Basket  28" x 42"  Oil On Linen

Still Life With Basket (SOLD)

28" x 42"

Oil On Linen

 

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Still Life With Bottle And Recorder After Picasso (SOLD)  36" x 30"  Oil On Linen

Still Life With Bottle And Recorder After Picasso (SOLD)

36" x 30"

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Still Life With Cubbard  40” x 28"  Oil On Linen

Still Life With Cubbard

40” x 28"

Oil On Linen

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Still Life With Fruit And Skull  36” x 42”  Oil On Linen

Still Life With Fruit And Skull

36” x 42”

Oil On Linen

 

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Still Life with Fruit, Cabbage, And Recorder  36" x 40"  Oil On Linen

Still Life With Fruit, Cabbage, And Recorder (SOLD)

36" x 40"

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Still Life With Gas Can,  38" x 34"  Oil On Linen

Still Life With Gas Can

38" x 34"

Oil On Linen

 

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Still Life With Oil Lamp and Scissors  48" x 24"  Oil On Linen

Still Life With Oil Lamp

48" x 24"

Oil On Linen

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Table With Blue Cloth, Jug, And Wine  40" x 48"  Oil On Linen

Table With Blue Cloth, Jug, And Wine

40" x 48"

Oil On Linen

 

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Still Life After Van Schooten  28" x 34"  Oil On Linen

Van Schooten Still Life After Braque (SOLD)

22" x 32"

Oil On Linen

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Yellow Table With Teapot, Cabbage, And Can Opener  36" x 38"  Oil On Linen

Yellow Table With Teapot, Cabbage, And Can Opener

36" x 38"

Oil On Linen

 

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Green Table Still Life With Jug And Zinnias  32" x 28"  Oil On Linen

Green Table Still Life With Jug And Zinnias

32" x 28"

Oil On Linen

Orange And Blue Still Life With Sculpture  40" x 40"  Oil On Linen

Orange And Blue Still Life With Sculpture (SOLD)

40" x 40"

Oil On Linen

 

Side Table Still Life  42" x 36"  Oil On Linen

Side Table Still Life

42" x 36"

Oil On Linen

 

Still Life after Picasso and De Heem  52" x 69"  Oil On Linen

Still Life After Picasso And De Heem

52" x 69"

Oil On Linen

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Still Life After Van Schooten  28" x 34"  Oil On Linen

Still Life After Van Schooten 

28" x 34"

Oil On Linen

 

Still Life After Van Steenwyck And Picasso  30" x 32"  Oil On Linen

Still Life After Van Steenwyck And Picasso

30" x 32"

Oil On Linen

Still Life with Basket  28" x 42"  Oil On Linen

Still Life With Basket (SOLD)

28" x 42"

Oil On Linen

 

Still Life With Bottle And Recorder After Picasso (SOLD)  36" x 30"  Oil On Linen

Still Life With Bottle And Recorder After Picasso (SOLD)

36" x 30"

Oil On Linen

Still Life With Cubbard  40” x 28"  Oil On Linen

Still Life With Cubbard

40” x 28"

Oil On Linen

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Still Life With Fruit And Skull  36” x 42”  Oil On Linen

Still Life With Fruit And Skull

36” x 42”

Oil On Linen

 

Still Life with Fruit, Cabbage, And Recorder  36" x 40"  Oil On Linen

Still Life With Fruit, Cabbage, And Recorder (SOLD)

36" x 40"

Oil On Linen

 

Still Life With Gas Can,  38" x 34"  Oil On Linen

Still Life With Gas Can

38" x 34"

Oil On Linen

 

Still Life With Oil Lamp and Scissors  48" x 24"  Oil On Linen

Still Life With Oil Lamp

48" x 24"

Oil On Linen

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Table With Blue Cloth, Jug, And Wine  40" x 48"  Oil On Linen

Table With Blue Cloth, Jug, And Wine

40" x 48"

Oil On Linen

 

Still Life After Van Schooten  28" x 34"  Oil On Linen

Van Schooten Still Life After Braque (SOLD)

22" x 32"

Oil On Linen

Yellow Table With Teapot, Cabbage, And Can Opener  36" x 38"  Oil On Linen

Yellow Table With Teapot, Cabbage, And Can Opener

36" x 38"

Oil On Linen

 

“For the Modernists, painting itself is the subject. But frontality and shallow space also characterize Classical and pre-Renaissance painting. I like straddling the two, working between old and new, between the real and imaginary.”

- Elizabeth Geiger

Elizabeth Geiger - Borrowed Rhythms - Exhibitions - Gross McCleaf Gallery

Orange And Blue Still Life With Sculpture, 40" x 40", Oil On Linen

Elizabeth Geiger is a lifelong student of painted form and has focused on still life for decades. Geiger’s choice to adopt this subject matter has allowed her approach to representation to steadily advance into new territory, guided by the luminaries of art history.

In Borrowed Rhythms, Geiger has relaxed her fidelity to observed forms and colors. Embarking toward a world that embraces the rhythms, tensions and visual contradictions of Cubism, her new paintings playfully divide up rectangular canvases into simplified shapes.

While the objects within the pictures remain nameable, their details and textures have been replaced with flat color or quick notations of pattern. These shifts in emphasis transform her paintings into purposeful and surprising compositions containing formal elements that self-reference and rhyme across the picture plane.

While these new works are a departure from Geiger’s previous style, they contain the next logical step on her path, satisfying her personal artistic vision and her unending interest in experimentation. While maintaining her classical sensitivity to color and light, Geiger manages to investigate the conventions of Cubism and Modernism. The result is a sophisticated blend of contemporary, modern, and historical styles of painting.

Elizabeth Geiger - Borrowed Rhythms - Exhibitions - Gross McCleaf Gallery

Still Life With Basket, 28" x 42", Oil On Linen

Elizabeth Geiger attended the University of Virginia for painting, followed by time at the New York Studio School and the Vermont Studio Center. Geiger has won a fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and shown her work regularly throughout the country. Her work is in the collection of the Sheltering Arms Hospital Richmond as well as the Clay Center Museum of Fine Art in Charleston, WV.

Along with her regular teaching at the Beverley Street Studio School in Staunton, VA, she has been a visiting artist at the College of William & Mary and the Kentucky College of Art & Design, spoken at Washington & Lee University and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, taught landscape painting at the Mount Gretna School of Art and leads workshops throughout the Eastern United States. She is married to figurative painter Philip Geiger and they have two children who studied art in college. She lives and works in Virginia.

Elizabeth Geiger - Borrowed Rhythms - Exhibitions - Gross McCleaf Gallery

Still Life With Blue Cloth, Jug And Wine, 40" x 48", Oil On Linen

Videos

'Elizabeth Geiger, a Perceptual Painter Channels Cubism'

Elizabeth Geiger is a superb still life painter and a member of the Perceptual Painters, a group known for working from direct observation. In her current show at Gross McCleaf, Liz is showing work with a distinctly Cubist inflection. I wanted to get to the roots of her apparent switch from perceptual to conceptual painting.