eliza combs

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PAINTINGS

My paintings come from my body/from having a body, a femme body, a queer body, a body that holds memory, sensation, violence, pleasure, survival and mystery. I paint figures, openings, shadows, chairs, diamonds, visions that appear to me, portals. Some images come through dreams. Others begin with a feeling, a movement or something I cannot yet explain.

I work intuitively and experimentally, building with layers of acrylic, water, and sometimes charcoal and other materials. I am interested in what happens when an image is allowed to remain unresolved / when something beautiful can also be disturbing, erotic, funny, sacred or strange. I ask the paintings to bend, open, split, dance, disappear and become something else. They carry traces of what has happened and the work of transmutation.


TripleXXX aka Wisdom Eye after Alice Coltrane,  green X, Acrylic on Canvas, 24x24
TripleX aka Wisdom Eye after Alice Coltrane,  red X, Acrylic on Canvas, 24x24
TripleX aka Wisdom Eye after Alice Coltrane,
  black X, Acrylic on Canvas, 24x24