Liz Whitney Quisgard
A graduate of the Maryland Institute, College of Art, with both undergraduate and graduate degrees in painting and sculpture, Quisgard later received a certificate in architectural design as well.
Trained as an abstract expressionist, Quisgard early on enjoyed a successful career with that genre. In the mid 1980’s, dissatisfied with what she considered intellectual constraints of the painting path she had chosen, Quisgard made an abrupt change into a painting style best described as magic realism with a neo-pointillist twist. Thousands and thousands of colored dots are meticulously placed upon canvases and imaginatively shaped sculptures to create dazzling, kaleidoscopic images, spawned in her imaginative mind.
Working in both oil and acrylic, shifting effortlessly from sculpture and canvas to a recently added art form: geometric tapestries, many of Quisgard’s works have elements of Byzantine or Moorish architecture. Her dot patterns help to reinforce the image of mosaic tile or mysterious multicolored Middle Eastern jewels.
Frequently commissioned to create site-specific installations, huge joined panels invite the viewer into mysterious rooms, intriguing passageways, through inviting archways. They coax the viewer to dare to proceed, to immerse themselves further.
The recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the prestigious Pollock-Krasner award, she is in numerous museums and prominent private and corporate collections.
Millions of dots, in the gifted hands of Liz Whitney Quisgard, create scenes of unbelievable mystery and epitomize the oxymoron, peaceful intrigue.
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