Glaessner Elizabeth
Hot Spring depicts a blurred female body submerged in an intense red pictorial field. The figure appears suspended between visibility and dissolution, with facial features barely emerging from the saturated surface. The flowing, almost liquid treatment of paint evokes heat, immersion, and bodily vulnerability, while the dominant red tones heighten the sense of physical and emotional intensity.
Elizabeth Glaessner is an American painter whose work explores transformation, multiplicity, and psychological states through surreal, densely layered compositions. Drawing on art history, mythology, memory, and popular culture, her paintings depict fluid figures within amorphous environments, where bodies and surroundings appear in continuous states of becoming.
Glaessner was born in the United States in 1984. She received a BA in Art and Art History from Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, in 2007, and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art, New York, in 2013. Following her studies, she settled in New York City, where she has lived and worked since 2007.
Her practice is characterized by an intuitive, process-driven approach. Glaessner often begins by pouring pigment onto the surface, allowing chance and material behavior to shape the composition before developing figurative and abstract forms. Referencing Symbolism, Surrealism, and modern psychological painting, her work resists linear narratives, instead evoking ambivalent emotional states and unresolved tensions.
Glaessner has presented numerous solo exhibitions internationally, including presentations at P·P·O·W, New York; Perrotin, Paris and Tokyo; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles; and Consortium Museum, Dijon. Her work has also been included in major group exhibitions in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and shown at institutions and galleries such as the FLAG Art Foundation, Kasmin Gallery, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, and the Hammer Museum.
She has participated in international art fairs with P·P·O·W and Perrotin, including Art Basel, Art Basel Hong Kong, ART SG, Frieze London, and ARCOmadrid.
Glaessner is the recipient of several residencies and fellowships, including the New York Academy of Art Post Graduate Fellowship, GlogauAIR in Berlin, the Leipzig International Art Programme, and the Galveston Artist Residency.
Elizabeth Glaessner is represented by P·P·O·W Gallery, New York.