Georgia Elrod (she/they) is an artist based in the Hudson Valley and New York City. Her work has been exhibited in New York and abroad, in solo exhibitions at Peninsula Gallery and Novella Gallery, as well as in group exhibitions at spaces including Momenta Art, The Painting Center, and RH+ Gallery in Istanbul. Her work as been featured in Two Coats of Paint, ArtMaze Magazine, Big Bell Magazine, and New American Paintings. Georgia was a a co-director of the artist-run gallery Underdonk from 2016-2024, and co-curated at Heliopolis Gallery from 2012-2015. She received her MFA in Painting from Hunter College. Georgia is based in Hudson and Brooklyn New York.

Stemming from imagination and memory, I begin with many ink and gouache works on paper and cultivate the imagery into mixed media and oil paintings. The works toggle between transparency and opacity; they invite the viewer to the edge of knowing. I want the paintings to evoke a temporal, twilight atmosphere where figures and their parts become shapes that interplay as the imagery shifts in and out of recognition. I relate to these paintings as landscapes; they are poetic spaces that both contain and become the body. Playfully, I enjoy manipulating the viewer into multiple readings of the quasi-representational forms. I paint on unstretched canvas directly on the wall and build the surface using acrylic, oils, graphite, and pastels of all kinds, often alternately layering and removing. The surfaces both reflect and pursue embodiment in all its ineffable, fleeting, absurd, or profound moments. 

Exhibitions:

Dream Machine

In The Middle With You

Six Degrees of Abstraction

Five Fragments