ELIZABETH MAGEE

Elizabeth Magee’s practice is built around a specific interest in less-familiar forms that create a distinctly different place and space through their relationships to each other in scale, proximity, and in their conversation with each other. She paints on two-dimensional, rectangular, stretched canvas and wood panels and combines bases of acrylic wash, flashe, gouache, and graphite with a top layer of oil paint. By working in this manner, it provides a fertile field of inquiry that is ripe with possibilities for future exploration and production.

Elizabeth Magee earned her MFA in Visual Art from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, Vermont, and was awarded month-long fellowship residencies at Vermont Studio Center in March of 2016, and the Djerassi Resident Artist Program in March of 2019. Elizabeth graduated from the University of Oregon with a BFA in Painting and a Minor in Art History. Her work has been exhibited in both local and national group exhibitions and she is a lifelong Oregonian who currently lives and works in Western Oregon.