Boston Globe Visual Arts - Elise Ansel

Written By Dakota X

What’s Happening in the Art World

By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent, Updated August 12, 2021
Source: Boston Globe Visual Arts

ELISE ANSEL Ansel, a painter’s painter who works wet-on-wet, uses old master paintings as source material to create fluid, gestural abstractions. It’s as if she’s pulling the vaunted old scenes authored by Great Men through time’s vortex and revealing them to be something new — shorn of history’s traps but still rooted in its essence, something that shimmers and hums. 

The School House Gallery: Through Sept. 1, 2021

Elise Ansel's "Outrageous Interference II."LUC DEMERS/COURTESY OF THE SCHOOLHOUSE GALLERY

 
Dakota X

DAKOTA X (b. Boston, 1961) is a Contemporary American Painter. X's artistic work examines the complexities of individual experience particularly in its relation to home, gender identity, isolation and memory. X is a recipient of the Orlowsky Freed Foundation Grant and a finalist in the shortlist for the 2018 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London.

https://dakota-x.org/
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