LIZBETH MITTY
Biography
Lizbeth Mitty, Graduate School Studio
Artist Statement
Born in Queens, NY to a family of artists, inventors and actors, I grew up painting and writing. My work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in both the United States and abroad and is held in public and private collections including the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York State Museum, The Orlando Museum of Art, The Zimmerli Archive, The U.S. State Department, and Trierenberg Holding AG (Austria). My studio is located in Brooklyn, NY
My body of work — described by New York Times critic Ken Johnson as a combination of “painterly verve and hellish beauty” — has long been concerned with examining and amplifying the intrinsic abstract beauty of deteriorating or overlooked corners of urban architecture and interiors. In 2020, the landscape of the italian coast rose up from the detritus to dominate my body of work. Spectacular and evocative of grandeur, yet with a new levity. I now find myself on a seesaw, leaning away from the current events that are inescapable-yet escape seems to be what I am suddenly offering. For much of my career, scrap yards and other sites of urban devastation fascinated me as locations of organized chaos, formally beautiful, yet apocalyptic and terrifying. In these new landscapes, elegance, hope, and optimism are winning the day. The cyclical nature and mutability of things in times of excess are the subliminal driving forces in these works.
“Acutely observed, remembered and then re-imagined, these futuristic scenes are not so much renditions of a specific location as they are dizzying translations in paint of Mitty's wonderment at the endless variety of visual information offered up by her subjects.” — Art in America, January 2006
Gallery Representation
Harper’s Gallery, NY, LA, South Hampton
Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Solo Exhibitions
Upcoming
2025 Harper’s Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY
2024 Time Just Slips - Adhesivo Contemporary, Mexico City
2024 Repasts, MASSIMODECARLO Piece Unique, Paris, France
2023 Harper’s Gallery, Chelsea Lobby Space, New York, NY
2022 Harper's Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Harper's Gallery, Upper East Side, New York, NY
2022 Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2018 John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2017 Glistens Down Me, a Solo Exhibition at David & Schweitzer Contemporary Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Elgin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 A.M. Richard Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY
2008 Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY
2007 Mercantile Building, Milwaukee, WI
2005 Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY
2002 Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY
1999 Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY
1995 Lorraine Kessler Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
1985 Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1977 Image Gallery, Athens, GA
1977 First Unitarian Church, Athens, GA
Two-Person Exhibitions
2021 Melville’s Existential Diner, Lizbeth Mitty and Marcela Silva, Curated by Norton William
at Peepshow Space, Brooklyn, NY
2019 The Thread, M David & Co, Brooklyn, NY - read more >
2018 Valley of Ashes, Caldwell College Art Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2016 In The Thickness, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
2023/2024 Season, The Bunker Art Space, West Palm Beach, FL
Kismet, with Harper’s Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Crescent Heights, Harper’s Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cereal Isle, Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY
Incandescence, Lehman College Art Gallery, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, and Hall of Fame, New York, NY
36 Paintings, Harper’s Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2023
NADA, with Harper’s Gallery, Miami, FL
NADA, with Harper’s Gallery, New York, NY
Artists Talking: Conversations in Paint and Paper, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2022
NADA, with Harper’s Gallery, Miami, FL
NADA, with Harper’s Gallery, New York, NY
Harper’s Seoul Pop-up with The Here & There Co., Seoul, Korea
Galerie 75 Faubourg, Paris, France - Harper’s pop-up exhibition
Still, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY – curated by Elizabeth Hazan
2021
Untitled, Miami Basel, with Harper's Gallery, Miami, FL
The Pathological Landscape, Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY
Art on a Postcard, London, UK
Access Art, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Essential Works, Odetta Digital Shim Art Network on Artsy.net
What on Earth: Contemporary Artists + the Landscape, Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Keep for Old Memoirs, curated by Victoria Miro and Kate Mothes, linktr.ee/yngspc
Turner Patent Yellow, Odetta Gallery, New York, NY
The Enabling Act: A Call to Arms, M David & Co, Brooklyn, NY
Pandemic Proof, Odetta Digital, Shim Art Network on Artsy.net
Sea Change, Odetta Digital, Shim Art Network on Artsy.net
USPS Project, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY, Sunset Art Studios, Dallas, Texas, Art Gym, Colorado
2019
Ondate/Waves, Bologna, Italy/Brooklyn, NY
Access Art, Brooklyn, NY
2018
2018 History of Bushwick Holiday Show, M David & Co, Brooklyn, NY
BOS 2019, M David & Co, Brooklyn, NY
Among Friends, Brooklyn, NY
Chain Reaction: Artists Select Artists, Invitational, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Yellow Chair Holiday Extravaganza, David&Schweitzer Contemporary Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Cynthia Nixon Fundraiser, Ideal Glass, New York, NY
2017
Fables of the Reconstruction, Four Person Exhibition, David&Schweitzer Contemporary Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Flatfile Exhibition, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
Summer Exhibition, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Pussy Power” Curators: Jennifer Samet and Michael David, Benefit Exhibition, David&Schweitzer
Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
Reality is Wrong, Dreams are Real, David&Schweitzer Contemporary Annex, Brooklyn, NY
Sanctuary, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Access Art, Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Falling In, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Seeking Space, Arts In Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Sideshow on Mars, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Up for Debate, BRIC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Maimonides Hospital Boardroom Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Access Art, Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Brooklyn New York
Her.art, Promoting Women Artists in the Contemporary Art Market, Silent Auction, New York, NY
Lorimoto Gallery Holiday Salon, Brooklyn New York.
2014
Life on Mars Gallery Summer Invitational, Brooklyn, NY
WagMag Benefit Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
21 and Counting, The Painting Center, NY, NY
Access Art, Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Honorable Beasts, Elgin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Curate NYC Top 150, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Access Art, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Curate NYC, Curator Lizzetta LaFalle Collins, Museum of African Diaspora, Online Exhibition
Curate NYC, Curator Sarah Newman, Corcoran Gallery, Online Exhibition
2012
Temporary Contemporary Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
Go Project, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Red Hook Open Studio Tour, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Miami Basel, Wynwood Arts District, Hangar Gallery, Miami, FL
2010
The Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
Windham Fine Arts, Windham ,NY
Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL
2009
New York: Then and Now, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
ArtHamptons, Bridgehampton, NY
2008
Two Person Exhibition, Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY
ArtHamptons, Bridgehampton, NY
Summer Exhibition of Monotypes, Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, New York, NY
Art in a Box, Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, New York, NY
2007
20 Years of Printmaking, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY
Art in a Box, Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, New York, NY
2005
New Art: New Work: Reflections of the Human Condition, Trierenberg Holding AG, Traun, Austria
University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, Colombia, MO
2002
Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Annual Benefit, Diane Von Furstenberg Studio Gallery, New York, NY
Landscapes, Real and Imagined, Rye Art Center, Rye, NY
Faculty Exhibition, Hofstra University, Hempstead NY
2001
Vessels, The St. Paul Company, Minneapolis, MN
1998
Jay Gallery, Pelavin Editions, New York, NY
1997
Berkshire Museum, 1996 Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Curator Dan Cameron, Pittsfield, MA
Lorraine Kessler Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
1996
Jay Gallery, Pelavin Editions, New York, NY
Faculty Exhibtion, SUNY at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
1995
Summer Solstice, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
Jay Gallery, Pelavin Editions, New York, NY
1994
Nassau County Museum of Art, Exhibition of the Permanent Collection, Roslyn, NY
Faculty Exhibition, SUNY at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
1993
Exhibition of Permanent Collection, Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Queens, NY
Women Printmakers: An Intimate View, Queensborough Community College Gallery, Queens, NY
1992
Faculty Exhibition, SUNY at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
1991
Long Island Landscape Painting in the Twentieth Century, Museums at Stony Brook, NY
Group Exhibition, Berkshire Museum, Curator Lisa Phillips, Pittsfield, MA
In Search of the American Experience, Museum of the National Arts Foundation, New York, NY
1990
Contemporary Scenes of New York City, Associated American Artists Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Prints: New York Workshops Create, Bronx Museum, NY
1985
The Artist Celebrates New York: Works From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Traveling Exhibition:
Bronx Museum, Long Island University, Jamaica Arts Center, Staten Island Museum, City College
Gallery Artists and Friends, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1982
Textured Plains, Proctor Arts Center, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York, NY
1981
The Broken Surface, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York and Bennington College, VT
1980
Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
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Fellowships and Awards
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant
Public and Corporate Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
New York State Museum, Albany, NY
Northwestern Mutual Life, Milwaukee, WI
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Zimmerli Archive, Rutgers University, NJ
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology, Columbia, MO
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Dennos Museum, Traverse City, MI
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY
Trierenberg Holding AG, Traun, Austria
US Department of State, Washington, D.C.
Ameriprise Financial Corporation, New York, NY
Sanwa Capital Management, Japan
Greenpoint Savings Bank, New York, NY
Fidelity Financial, Boston, MA
Queensborough Community College, Queens, NY
General Dynamics Corporation, Falls Church, VA
Carey Ellis Company, Sacramento, CA
Centre Reinsurance of New York, New York, NY
Quad Graphics, Milwaukee, WI
Hanson Graphic, Milwaukee, WI
Tendler Real Estate, New York, NY
Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett, New York, NY
Prudential Corporation, Newark, NJ
Equitable Life Assurance Society, New York, NY
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York, NY
US Trust Corporation, New York, NY
Oakbrook Bank, Oakbrook, IL
B. Riche, Berlin, Germany
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, NY
Kliegerman Group, Westport, CT
New York Blood Center, New York, NY
Education
1975 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI M.F.A
1973 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI B.A.
1969–71 SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY