Artists' Fellowship - 2000
(Lily Auchincloss Fellow)
Painting
Artist Statement:
My work is propelled by an interest in systems. Using activities and repetitive processes, such as counting and writing, I’ve been making images that merge notions of labor with time." Zawada’s canvases are covered with repetitious numbering which starts in straight lines and gradually begins to move out of alignment until great strings of numbers sway and scallop across the picture plane. The blue and red ballpoint ink softens into the white ground, resulting in gently diffused markings that create dream-like shapes and forms.
More about the Artist:
Born in Toronto, Canada in 1960, Elizabeth Zawada moved to the United States in 1964 and is now a US citizen. Zawada received a BFA from SUNY at Purchase College, Purchase NY; MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. She was awarded a NYFA Painting Fellowship and a PS1 Contemporary Art Studio Artists Residency.
Solo exhibitions include Gary Tatintsian Gallery, NY; Ferrell/Pollack Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Walden Gallery, New York, NY.
Group exhibitions include Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY; Exit Art, New York, NY; Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Hunterdon Museum, NJ; Montserrat College of Art, MA; PS1 Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY; Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY.
She has also participated in the exhibition Buying Time: Nourishing Excellence at Sotheby's, New York, from June-July 2001. Also, organized and led Artists & Audiences Exchange event at Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY, September 2001.
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