My recent work posits physicality as a kind of living abstraction and poetic space, presenting bodily forms that can be both known and unidentifiable. I begin with many ink and gouache works on paper to cultivate the imagery into larger mixed media oil paintings. The works toggle between transparency and opacity; they invite the viewer to the edge of knowing. They evoke a temporal, twilight atmosphere to express fleeting moments in time within and between bodies, their narratives often embedded with autobiographical meaning. 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.

Georgia Elrod 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 Art Space and John Davis Gallery, as well as in group exhibitions at spaces including Momenta Art, The Painting Center, and RH+ Gallery in Istanbul. Elrod has been featured in ArtMaze Magazine, Big Bell Magazine, and New American Paintings. She is currently a co-director of the artist-run gallery Underdonk, and co-curated at Heliopolis Gallery from 2012-2015. She received her MFA in Painting from Hunter College. 

Exhibitions:

In The Middle With You

Six Degrees of Abstraction

Five Fragments