Elizabeth Chiles | Weave

Works include natural pigment paintings made from wild flowers and grasses, and collages created from collections of images made as Chiles moves around an object and then combines, reconfigures and shifts them responding to her mind’s eye. Their final formats are determined by their relationship to place-making; finding and creating meaning within an environment.

Elizabeth Chiles spends a lot of time thinking about color and light. For her exhibition Weave at grayDUCK Gallery, she brings new paintings and collage that introduce her use of abstract color (color that is not representational, but based on perception, after image, and the effects of spectral light), as well as new formats, including wide formats that embrace the all encompassing nature of the panorama, and long formats that embrace two widely different but equally important references: sacred scrolls and wallpaper.