Elizabeth Cook is an artist, writer, and critic. She has a B.A. in History from Yale University, a B.F.A. in Painting from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, and an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York.
She is the co-author (with Saul Levmore, the William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago) of Super Strategies for Puzzles and Games.
She appreciates your feedback, opinions, and suggestions. Please feel free to comment on blog contents or email her directly through her website: www.elizabethcook.com.
Your journey into abstraction captivates me as I struggle to make my realistic paintings more abstract and find my abstract paintings resemble really bad realistic work. Stuart Davis – one to listen to intently for a while…
Libby – I agree. I’ve learned a lot from reading Stuart Davis, and I like his paintings. But actually achieving abstraction… crazy hard!
I love it—the writing, the pictures, the insights. Having read about some of these shows already, I have to say your perspective adds a new dimension to them without bogging them down in artspeak. I will definitely check your blog before the next time I head to Chelsea.
Liz,
Thanks for the nice stroll! .
I marvel at your succinct descriptions and comments on the art works. I would highlight in your blog that we can find history, depth of thinking and contemporary art.
Love the blog! Simple, beautiful and quite thoughtful. The pictures pop and your descriptions make me want to see the work you’re describing. And I’ll have better insights when I do. Thanks!