Elizabeth Glaessner: Drawing
Elizabeth Glaessner paints, draws and uses processes such as batik to carry her images of shape shifting bodies. I have posted before on artists beginning to break through into a non binary way of making images about human beings and I believe she is one of the most interesting. I came across her work when looking through Maria Calandra's blog 'Pencil in the studio', which is well worth a visit, as Calandra has been visiting artists in their studios for a long time and making drawings as she talks to the various artists she visits.
I particularly like Glaessner's transparent batik works on thin silk. They question the nature of painting as a layered activity and open both sides of the image to scrutiny. Her work feels as if she is trying to tap into an ancient tradition of shamanistic responses, as if the modern world is dissolving back into a swamp of biomorphic beginnings; her fluid humanoids summoning us back to a world of primordial visions of ourselves.
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