Portrait Photography by Flaneurshan.studioElizabeth Gordon Stilwell is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Born between the beach and Disney in Central Florida, Elizabeth has lived in Arkansas, Louisiana, and several cities in China on her way to NYC. After working in education and design, she turned to creating art as a way to work through the death of her only sibling in 2020. Working out of her home studio, Elizabeth explores themes of family, gender, religion, and American culture through the marriage of personal memorabilia and found materials.
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New York, NY
The artists of Frustrating the Barrier spent the past 9 months gestating new modes of thinking, visualizing, and birthing new bodies of work. Through a diverse array of installation, painting, sculpture, and multimedia, the exhibition invites viewers to reflect on what separates and connects us, both individually and collectively.
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New York, NY
Feel like a mess? Bust out your best art smock for Play Date, where innocence and irony collide. This debut solo show by Elizabeth Gordon Stilwell unravels the tangled threads of her evangelical childhood and the ideals of American culture, beauty, sex, gender, and home that came with it. Through large, layered pieces—ranging from sculptures to textiles—she stitches together personal memorabilia and found materials to explore the deliciously weird terrain of girlhood.