Elizabeth Higgins

Elizabeth Higgins is a painter and a printmaker. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Higgins earned her BFA at Queen’s University, Canada, where she apprenticed under Canadian printmaker J.C.Heywood and studied painting with Slade School artists, Ralph Allen and David Andrew. She later moved to New York City where as a Helena Rubenstein Award recipient, she earned her MFA at Parsons School of Design, studying under Leland Bell, Paul Resika, John Heliker, Albert Kresch, Stanley Lewis and Robert De Niro Sr. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Toronto, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Portland, Maine and Connecticut, where she is a member of the Silvermine Guild of Artists.

Read the April 2024 article in Art, Upcoming Show Preview / George Billis Gallery, Elizabeth Higgins – New
Monotypes May 2 – May 31, 2024

Read the 12/28/22 New Criterion, Dispatch article, A studio visit with Elizabeth Higgins,”On the art and career of Elizabeth Higgins” by Luke Lyman.

Read the 11/29/22 New Criterion, The Critics Notes, “Elizabeth Higgins’ exhibition HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN: New Paintings and Prints by Elizabeth Higgins”.

“Elizabeth Higgins’ direct brushwork and simplified forms suggest an earnest energy, but crucially, they reveal a painter who knows the power of color.” — John Goodrich,”Truth Be Told” – Prince Street Gallery Catalog Essay, 2016

“Her lucent colors are laid on with a vigor that gives her compositions a spontaneous, dynamic, character, but their distribution in strong, heavy masses establishes a powerful atmosphere of poise and assurance……In this, as in all of her richly filled, complex paintings, Elizabeth Higgins reveals a profoundly felt sense of color and a sure instinct for composition.” — Dennis Wepman, Elizabeth Higgins At The Prince Street Gallery, Manhattan Arts magazine, 1987

Interview with Elizabeth Higgins by Larry Groff on Painting Perceptions.com

Elizabeth Higgins describes herself as an abstract figurative and landscape painter. Everything around her serves as a potential subject, an inspiration to begin a painting. Fidelity to the landscape, the figure, or the still life is relative, as she isn’t interested in literal depictions; instead, it’s the abstract relationships of these shapes and colors, the abstract pictorial design.

Rooted in the tradition stemming from Courbet, Derain, Bonnard, Matisse, Morandi, German Expressionism, the Canadian Group of Seven, to her artist-teachers Paul Resika, Robert de Niro Sr., and finally, the contemporary artist, Peter Doig. Her artistic evolution stretches across this continuum.

It is the “in-between”, the hovering between representation and abstraction, that interests her, not the labeling effect of details; instead, she aims directly at the spirit of the painting – of making something come to life.

Dreamscapes: Elizabeth Higgins, Catalogue 2018

Elizabeth Higgins Prince Street Gallery Catalogue 2016 with essay by John Goodrich.

CV for Elizabeth Higgins

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