Running Water presents water as an inescapable force that dissolves boundaries among body, landscape, memory, and present through poured pigments, mixed mediums, and layered oil paint. Figures shift between formal articulation and non-representational gesture to create permeable narratives of continuous ebb. Large-scale paintings and works on paper submerge miraculous transformations in dreamlike landscapes where birth, death, creation, and excretion become porous and mutable. Art historical, mythological, and cultural references combine with childhood memories and subconscious imagery tied to East Texas bayous and floodwaters. Bodies and bodies of water exchange perpetually, highlighting humanity’s inseparable link to changing hydrological systems.
P·P··O·W is pleased to present Running Water, Elizabeth Glaessner 's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. In this exhibition, water becomes an inescapable force dissolving the boundaries between body, landscape, memory, and the present in an incessant flood. Glaessner utilizes poured pigments mixed with various mediums and layers of rich oil paint, mimicking the fluidity of water, to create permeable narratives in which figures continuously ebb between formal articulation and non-representational gesture.
Combining art historical, mythological, and cultural references with childhood memories and the subconscious, Running Water resists familiarity and nostalgia, instead submitting to the new and unknown. The swampy landscape of East Texas, particularly its rivers and streams, haunt Glaessner's symbolic compositions. As a child, Glaessner recalls playing in the bayous and floodwaters that now threaten whole communities and their natural surroundings.
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