Elizabeth Casqueiro: Entrances and Exits

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Apr 14 2018 - Jul 15 2018

Elizabeth Casqueiro is a visual artist who was born in England and grew up in Portugal. [....] Her work is an exploration of masked identity in its many forms and purposes. She is interested in how, from an early age, we acquire and shed identities as seamlessly as an accomplished stage actor or a fictional superhero. She says, “Masters of the entrance and exit, our stage personas come and go in an ever changing script.” Elizabeth’s current body of work taps into the playful and entertaining origins of identity through a series of works involving the action hero, the stage actor, and what she calls “the cheesy plot.” Through the melding of opacity and translucency, structure and fluidity, and figuration and abstraction, she alludes to identity’s perpetual dance between order and chaos, exposure and concealment, and connection and disruption. Following her fall solo gallery show in Portugal (2017), the Academy Art Museum is offering her a first solo museum exhibition in the United States.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website

  • Painting
  • International
  • Elizabeth Casqueiro

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