Elyce Abrams

Works
Overview
An abstract artist who creates intimate paintings that explore personal histories through texture and brushstrokes, depicting the competing forces of fear and acceptance, compliance and resistance, isolation and connection. Her technically complex style, use of color and patterning, encourages viewers to question what they are looking at.

Elyce Abrams is an abstract artist known for her intimate paintings that capture personal histories through texture and brushstrokes. Her works depict the competing forces of fear and acceptance, compliance and resistance, isolation and connection. With a technically complex style, Abrams creates a new landscape that encourages viewers to question what they are looking at through her use of color, lights, and patterning.

 

Born in South Africa, Abrams received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and her MFA from the University of the Arts: Philadelphia in 2004. She was awarded an Artist's Grant to the Vermont Studio Center in 2005. Currently based in Pennsylvania, Abrams has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States since 1999.

Biography
Elyce Abrams
Through texture and brushstrokes, Elyce Abrams constructs personal histories in her abstract paintings, exploring themes of fear, acceptance, compliance, and resistance. Her use of color, lights, and patterning creates a dialogue that intrigues and challenges viewers to question their perception of the painting. With a background in the arts, Abrams has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and has received numerous grants and awards to support her work.

In her intimately scaled abstract paintings, artist Elyce Abrams constructs personal histories by recording significant experiences and memories from her life. Abrams’ use of texture and brushstrokes is technically complex as she metaphorically frames abstracted memories to derive a new landscape. Within that landscape, she depicts competing forces of fear and acceptance, compliance and resistance, isolation and connection in order to understand and frame a constantly changing reality. In addition, Abrams’ use of color, lights, and patterning creates a dialogue that intrigues the viewer and encourages them to question on many levels what they are really looking at.

 

Born in South Africa, Abrams received her BFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and her MFA from the University of the Arts: Philadelphia in 2004, and was then awarded an Artist's Grant to the Vermont Studio Center in 2005. Currently living and working in Pennsylvania, she has shown frequently in its city galleries in both solo and group exhibitions, as well as from New York City to Delaware to Ohio since 1999.

Exhibitions
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