“Awalt engages nature’s chaos as a means of seeking out its order and immerses herself in its darks to find its light.”
Meredeth Fife Day, Art New England

Artist's Statement
My work has always been rooted in the natural world, and has developed from observational studies to expressive, evocations of nature. The micro and macro view of nature interest me simultaneously and recent paintings weave the two worlds together. Oppositional forces like growth and destruction, dark and light, interior and exterior, order and disorder, hold my attention when seeking out subject matter. In my paintings, often diametrically opposed forces coexist and create a tension both visual and spiritual. Settling in the land of the transcendentalists, and painting in their territory, has led to a greater identification with these writers philosophy of nature. In the field and in the studio, Emerson’s “transparent eyeball”, is my guide.

Biography
Elizabeth Awalt received her MFA degree at the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Neil Welliver. As an undergraduate, she studied Fine Arts at Boston College where she returned to teach and became a tenured professor. The artist was awarded fellowships at several art colonies, including the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, and the MacDowell and Millay colonies. She has been the recipient of both a Massachusetts Artists Fellowship in Painting and an Individual Artist Grant in Painting from the National Endowment of the Arts.

The artist has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Selected one person exhibitions include the Thomas Segal Gallery and Soprafina Gallery in Boston, MA., G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., NYC, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME., and Samuelis Baumgarte Gallery, Germany. The Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, Ma. presented, “Sanctuary of Light”, a one person show, in 2007. Her work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions in museums and galleries. A selection includes, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA., Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT. Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA.,and the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston. Her work is in the collection of the Danforth, Decordova, and McMullen Art Museums, as well as other museums and corporate collections.