If You Wanted the Sky, 2012 - Liz Markus
About the Work
About If You Wanted the Sky
This painting by Liz Markus takes its title from a lyric in the sixties pop song "To Sir With Love." The palm tree motif and polychromic sunset pay tribute to the Florida Highwaymen, a self-taught group of African-American artists known ...Read More
This painting by Liz Markus takes its title from a lyric in the sixties pop song "To Sir With Love." The palm tree motif and polychromic sunset pay tribute to the Florida Highwaymen, a self-taught group of African-American artists known for their lush tropical landscapes. Read Less
About the Artist
About Liz Markus
Liz Markus is known for her idiosyncratic paintings that combine colorful expressionism with pop imagery. Though she has depicted personalities as radically different as Sex ...Read More
Liz Markus is known for her idiosyncratic paintings that combine colorful expressionism with pop imagery. Though she has depicted personalities as radically different as Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten and first lady Nancy Reagan, her works shares her signature technique of saturated washes of acrylic paint on unprimed canvas. Vibrant colors diffuse and bleed into one another, creating trippy wet-on-wet compositions that evoke sixties psychedelia as well as the "high art" of midcentury Color Field painting. Even Markus's majestic landscape paintings are touched by an irreverent Pop sensibility. Titled after the lyrics of 1970s lounge legends like Burt Bacharach, these sumptuous paintings of waterfalls and sunsets take cues from the Hudson River School and Sunday plein air painters alike. Markus has had solo exhibitions at ZieherSmith in New York and Galleri Loyal in Stockholm.Read Less
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