We are pleased to announce the opening of Elizabeth Malaska’s solo exhibition All Be Your Mirror at the Seattle Art Museum this Friday, November 17. The show celebrates the Portland-based artist and recent recipient of the 2022 Betty Bowen Award, an annual award honoring the original and compelling vision of contemporary artist’s working in the Northwest.
Malaska’s grand tableaux respond to the legacies and narratives of Western art and the power dynamics that often assign women to submissive, objectified roles. Across her body of work, Malaska pulls influence from traditional painting, mythology, nature, literature, and modern advertising to weave threads of connection between humanity, spirituality, society, and the natural realm.
Elizabeth Malaska (b. 1978, Portland, OR) earned her BFA from California College of the Arts and her MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art. She is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, as well as the recipient of a Painter’s and Sculptor’s Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Hallie Ford Fellowship from The Ford Family Foundation. In 2022 she received the Betty Bowen award, culminating with an exhibition of her work at the Seattle Art Museum. Malaska’s work is in the permanent collection at the Portland Art Museum, the Schneider Museum of Art, and the Hallie Ford Museum. Her work has been featured in Ms.Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Artillery Magazine and ArtMaze among others. Elizabeth Malaska lives and works in Portland, OR.
