Elizabeth Hazan: Playful visionary
about 8 months ago (02/07/2024)
Elizabeth Hazan: Playful visionary – Two Coats of Paint Elizabeth Hazan, Glade, 2022, oil on linen, 66 x 55 inches Contributed by Patrick Neal / Elizabeth Hazan’s exhilarating oil paintings, on view at Hesse Flatow gallery in Chelsea, marry old-school color field abstraction and loopy, gestural shorthand. Her medium-sized and large-scale canvasses fluctuate between recognizable landscape formations and patchworks of chromatic passages. In a style that is seriously playful, elemental motifs like trees and lakes are rendered as simple squiggles and glyphs straddling blocks of heightened color combinations.