Elizabeth Gourlay Art
American
Elizabeth Gourlay is an American abstract artist, whose work emerges from a progressive process of layering color, lines and forms, informed both by inner emotional states, and her observation of nature and architecture. She lives and works in Chester, Connecticut. She was invited to work with Master Printer Anthony Kirk. Gourlay finds the immediacy and experimental quality of monotypes valuable to her practice as an artist. Her work is featured in various private and corporate collections, including The Lewitt Collection, The Marriott Family and Yale University. She is the recipient of several grants and fellowships, including two Individual Artist State Grants from the DECD/Connecticut Office of the Arts. In 2011, she was an invited artist in residence at the studio of Sol LeWitt, Spoleto, Italy. Gourlay uses a wide range of media such as oil, flashe, acrylic, ink and graphite to create artfully simple and strong compositions. Gourlay thinks of her work as a meditation on colors, lines and forms, leading to a complex network of shifting shapes and colors. She has an interest in elements found in nature, architecture and music, drawing lines, grids and geometric shapes to demonstrate it. Indeed, her work is often described by its musicality and architectural connotations. The use of line suggests influences from Agnes Martin, while her play of color reminds Paul Klee’s work. Her compositions deal with order and chaos using a line, color and shape.
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Artist: Elizabeth Gourlay
PG 17, Coral Red Stripe, Light Green, Dark Sage Abstract Geometric
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this abstract vertical painting in colored pencil and acrylic on canvas by Elizabeth Gourlay, a thick, vertical stripe in a coral shade of red orange is...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Key A - Contemporary Abstract Orange Peach Blue Navy Beige Stripes, 2022
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract painting in gouache and acrylic on paper, clean and precise, carefully ordered thick horizontal stripes in shades of peach, light blue, dark navy, and a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Archival Paper
Blue Umber, Beige, Light Blue, Brown, Orange, Gray Abstract Painting, Stripes
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
Clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and blocks of color in warm orange, soft yellow, pale blue and light brown are lively and vibrant against the soft beige background. Sign...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bluecobalt Green, Light Blue, Grass Green, Stripes, Geometric Abstract Painting
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
Clean and precise, carefully ordered blocks of color in light blue and light green are lively and vibrant while thin, delicate lines in blue and navy frame the shapes. Signed, dated ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Grayviolet - Orange Peach Gray Violet Lilac Blue Purple Violet Stripes, 2022
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract painting in acrylic on linen, carefully ordered horizontal blocks of color in salmon, peachy orange, lilac, mauve, gray and light purple are vibrant aga...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
AB22, Beige, Gray, Blue, Light Green, Red Orange Stripes Abstract Painting
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this abstract painting by Elizabeth Gourlay, clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and blocks of color in gray, light green, red orange and blue are lively and vibrant agai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel, Color Pencil
Bruma Two - Contemporary Geometric Abstract Gray Brown Beige Stripes, 2018
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract painting in flashe on canvas, stripes and blocks of color in soft gray blue, pale sage green, beige and golden brown are clean, precise and carefully or...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Vinyl
Duende Three, Stripes Beige, Orange, Yellow, Red, Green, Gray
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this painting by Elizabeth Gourlay, clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and blocks of color in orange, green, yellow, red and brown are warm and vibrant against the soft ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Vinyl
A30, Cobalt Indigo Blue, Purple, Violet, Beige Shaped Panel
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this painting in acrylic on canvas mounted on a shaped panel, carefully ordered blocks of color in a deep shade of dark cobalt blue with a thinner block in purple are vibrant agai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel
Chestnut, Mint Green, Brown, Orange, Beige Geometric Stripes
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
Clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and blocks of color in pale mint green, light blue, brown, beige and burnt orange complement the soft gray and beige background. Signed, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Vinyl
PG 18 - Geometric Abstract Green Coral Orange Beige Shaped Painting, 2021
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary painting in acrylic on canvas mounted on a shaped panel by Elizabeth Gourlay, carefully ordered blocks of color in a luminous, grassy shade of green frame two th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel
Blueaqua - Contemporary Abstract Painting Blue, Mint Green, Violet Stripes, 2020
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this abstract painting in colored pencil and acrylic on canvas by Elizabeth Gourlay, clean and precise, carefully ordered blocks of color in blue gray and light sage green are liv...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Quimperblue, Modern Square Abstract Painting Blue Beige, Green, Gray, Red, Black
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this square abstract painting in flashe on canvas, clean and precise stripes and blocks of color in soft sage green, light mint green, dark gray blue are carefully ordered. Signed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Vinyl, Other Medium
Limegreyrose, Beige, Orange, Green, Lemon Yellow, Gray Stripes, Geometric
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
Clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and blocks of color in orange, green, pale lemon yellow, gray, blue and brown are lively and vibrant against the soft beige background. Signed, dated and titled on verso.
Elizabeth Gourlay’s work is a meditation on color and form, a gradual yet progressive analysis leading to a complex vocabulary of shapes, color and line. Musical composition, emotional states and our collective subconscious resonate within bars, lines and blocks of color. The abstract forms emerge, layer and shift in precisely ordered, carefully composed rhythms. Gourlay's artwork is a contemplation of the elements that make color in reduced forms come to life: size, flatness, relation to its edges, and how the presence of other colors affect how it is perceived.
Gourlay drew inspiration from shapes found in everyday life and in her studio. The observed shapes either remain as they are or become simplified to their essential geometric elements. Subtleties in color, area, edge or orientation are the catalyst for emotive responses. Palette is minimized; the artist rarely used a wide palette within one work. Rather, a broad range of colors are explored and then reduced. Gourlay investigates color properties: complementary or analogous color, value, saturation and color harmony vs. color anomaly.
Elizabeth’s Gourlay’s work has been shown extensively throughout the United States. The artist was the recipient of numerous residencies, fellowships and awards including Artist in Residence at the studio of Sol LeWitt in Spoleto, Italy. Gourlay’s work has been written about in The New Criterion, Painters’ Table and Gorky’s Granddaughter, to name a few. Gourlay earned her MFA at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, and her BA from Edinburgh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
The Sower, Golden Mustard Yellow, Gray, Beige, Shaped Panel Geometric Abstract
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered blocks of color in a warm, golden shade of yellow and a deep shade of gray are vibrant against the neutral, earthy beige linen mounted on a shaped panel. Signed, dated and titled on verso.
Elizabeth Gourlay’s work is a meditation on color and form, a gradual yet progressive analysis leading to a complex vocabulary of shapes, color and line. Musical composition, emotional states and our collective subconscious resonate within bars, lines and blocks of color. The abstract forms emerge, layer and shift in precisely ordered, carefully composed rhythms. The artist contemplates the elements that make color in reduced forms come to life: size, flatness, relation to its edges, and how the presence of other colors affect how it is perceived.
Gourlay draws inspiration from shapes found in everyday life and in her studio. The observed shapes either remain as they are or become simplified to their essential geometric elements. Subtleties in color, area, edge or orientation are the catalyst for emotive responses. Palette is minimized; the artist rarely uses a wide palette within one work. Rather, a broad range of colors are explored and then reduced. Gourlay investigates color properties: complementary or analogous color, value, saturation and color harmony vs. color anomaly.
Elizabeth’s Gourlay’s work has been shown extensively throughout the United States. The artist is the recipient of numerous residencies, fellowships and awards including Artist in Residence at the studio of Sol LeWitt in Spoleto, Italy. Gourlay’s work has been written about in The New Criterion, Painters’ Table and Gorky’s Granddaughter, to name a few. Gourlay earned her MFA at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, and her BA from Edinburgh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel
H Two, Beige, Apricot Orange, Yellow, Light Blue, Dark Gray Abstract Stripes
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
Clean and precise hand-painted stripes and blocks of color in yellow, orange, light blue and dark gray are warm and vibrant against the soft beige background. Signed, dated and title...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Watchetblue, Square Abstract Painting in Beige, Blue, Green, Gray, Umber, Brown
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this abstract painting in flashe and ink on canvas by Elizabeth Gourlay, clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and blocks of color in soft blue, pale sage green, beige and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Vinyl, Canvas, Ink, Other Medium
F30 - Geometric Abstract Shaped Painting Apricot Orange Navy Blue Stripes, 2022
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary painting in acrylic on linen mounted on a shaped panel, two vertical blocks of color in dark lapis blue and soft, mottled orange are luminous against thinner neutral sections of exposed linen. Signed, dated and titled on verso.
Elizabeth Gourlay’s work is a meditation on color and form, a gradual yet progressive analysis leading to a complex vocabulary of shapes, color and line. Musical composition, emotional states and our collective subconscious resonate within bars, lines and blocks of color. The abstract forms emerge, layer and shift in precisely ordered, carefully composed rhythms. The artist contemplates the elements that make color in reduced forms come to life: size, flatness, relation to its edges, and how the presence of other colors affect how it is perceived.
Gourlay draws inspiration from shapes found in everyday life and in her studio. The observed shapes either remain as they are or become simplified to their essential geometric elements. Subtleties in color, area, edge or orientation are the catalyst for emotive responses. Palette is minimized; the artist rarely uses a wide palette within one work. Rather, a broad range of colors are explored and then reduced. Gourlay investigates color properties: complementary or analogous color, value, saturation and color harmony vs. color anomaly.
Elizabeth’s Gourlay’s work has been shown extensively throughout the United States. The artist was the recipient of numerous residencies, fellowships and awards including Artist in Residence at the studio of Sol LeWitt in Spoleto, Italy. Gourlay’s work has been written about in The New Criterion, Painters’ Table and Gorky’s Granddaughter, to name a few. Gourlay earned her MFA at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, and her BA from Edinburgh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Panel
Untitled 1 (Abstract painting)
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in London, GB
Untitled 1 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on shaped board — Unframed.
Elizabeth Gourlay is an American abstract artist whose work emerges from a progressive process of layering colour,...
Category
2010s Abstract Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Acrylic, Board
C63 (Abstract painting)
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in London, GB
C63 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on linen on board — Unframed.
Elizabeth Gourlay is an American abstract artist whose work emerges from a progressive process of layering colour, line...
Category
2010s Abstract Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Board
With Blue Gray - Contemporary Geometric Abstract Stripes Color, 2012
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this abstract painting in oil and graphite on panel by Elizabeth Gourlay, clean and precise, carefully ordered blocks of color in shades of blue are vibrant against a calm, soft s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Oil, Panel, Graphite
Three Four Four - Beige Orange Brown Stripes Geometric Lines Square, 2014
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
Clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and lines with orange and ochre stripes in a square shape against the neutral beige lined background. This contemporary abstract painting...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Linen, Panel, Graphite
No 89 - Contemporary Abstract Painting Blue Mint Green Gray Stripes, 2024
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this abstract painting in acrylic on canvas by Elizabeth Gourlay, clean and precise, carefully ordered blocks of color in blue and light mint green are vibrant against a calm, neu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Zurma Two - Contemporary Geometric Abstract Stripes Color Pink Green Gray, 2016
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this abstract painting in acrylic on linen mounted on panel by Elizabeth Gourlay, clean and precise, carefully ordered blocks of color in shades of magenta pink and green with hin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Panel, Linen, Acrylic
Untitled - Contemporary Geometric Abstract Orange Yellow Green Stripes, 2024
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this abstract painting in acrylic on canvas by Elizabeth Gourlay, clean and precise, carefully ordered blocks of color in bright orange, yellow, red orange coral and sage green ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled - Contemporary Geometric Abstract Red Sage Beige Gray Shapes
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
Contemporary abstract painting in acrylic and graphite on panel of geometric shapes and blocks of color. Signed on verso.
Elizabeth Gourlay’s work is a meditation on color and form,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Acrylic, Panel, Graphite
Ashgreylime - Beige Light Green Sage Lemon Yellow Stripes Geometric Abstract
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
Clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and blocks of color in light green, dark sage, yellow ochre, pale lemon yellow and burnt orange are lively and vibrant against the neutra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Primrosegrey, Beige, Orange, Gray Blue, Yellow Stripes Geometric Abstract
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
Clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and blocks of color in orange, gray blue, pale yellow, blue and brown are lively and vibrant against the soft beige background. Signed, d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Canna - Orange Pink Blue Stripes Beige Linen, 2016
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract painting in acrylic on linen mounted on panel, carefully ordered horizontal blocks of color along the edge of the composition in pink, orange and light ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Panel
C30 - Peach Mauve Pink Beige Pastel Stripes Shaped Painting, 2022
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract painting in acrylic on linen mounted on a shaped panel by Elizabeth Gourlay, carefully ordered blocks of color in salmon, peach and mauve are luminous a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Panel
AB21, Geometric Abstract Painting, Beige, Orange, Yellow Ochre, Gray, Blue, Sage
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
Clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and blocks of color in orange, green, pale lemon yellow, gray, blue, purple and brown are lively and vibrant against the soft beige backg...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel, Color Pencil
V30 - Geometric Abstract Lavender Blue Gray Stripes Shaped Painting, 2022
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract painting by Elizabeth Gourlay in acrylic on linen mounted on a shaped panel, carefully ordered horizontal blocks of color in pale gray blue lavender, gr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Panel
P30 - Geometric Abstract Shaped Painting Gray Blue Yellow Ochre Lilac, 2022
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary geometric abstract painting in acrylic on canvas mounted onto a shaped panel, carefully ordered horizontal blocks of color in yellow ochre, light lilac and light blue frame sections of gray with light lilac in the center. Signed, dated and titled on verso.
Elizabeth Gourlay’s work is a meditation on color and form, a gradual yet progressive analysis leading to a complex vocabulary of shapes, color and line. Musical composition, emotional states and our collective subconscious resonate within bars, lines and blocks of color. The abstract forms emerge, layer and shift in precisely ordered, carefully composed rhythms. The artist contemplates the elements that make color in reduced forms come to life: size, flatness, relation to its edges, and how the presence of other colors affect how it is perceived.
Gourlay draws inspiration from shapes found in everyday life and in her studio. The observed shapes either remain as they are or become simplified to their essential geometric elements. Subtleties in color, area, edge or orientation are the catalyst for emotive responses. Palette is minimized; the artist rarely uses a wide palette within one work. Rather, a broad range of colors are explored and then reduced. Gourlay investigates color properties: complementary or analogous color, value, saturation and color harmony vs. color anomaly.
Elizabeth’s Gourlay’s work has been shown extensively throughout the United States. The artist was the recipient of numerous residencies, fellowships and awards including Artist in Residence at the studio of Sol LeWitt in Spoleto, Italy. Gourlay’s work has been written about in The New Criterion, Painters’ Table and Gorky’s Granddaughter, to name a few. Gourlay earned her MFA at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, and her BA from Edinburgh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel
Q30 - Geometric Abstract Shaped Panel Sage Green Gray Beige Stripes, 2022
By Elizabeth Gourlay
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary geometric abstract painting in acrylic on linen mounted on a shaped panel, carefully ordered horizontal blocks of color in pale green, light teal blue and soft sage are luminous against thinner neutral sections of exposed beige linen. Signed, dated and titled on verso.
Elizabeth Gourlay’s work is a meditation on color and form, a gradual yet progressive analysis leading to a complex vocabulary of shapes, color and line. Musical composition, emotional states and our collective subconscious resonate within bars, lines and blocks of color. The abstract forms emerge, layer and shift in precisely ordered, carefully composed rhythms. The artist contemplates the elements that make color in reduced forms come to life: size, flatness, relation to its edges, and how the presence of other colors affect how it is perceived.
Gourlay draws inspiration from shapes found in everyday life and in her studio. The observed shapes either remain as they are or become simplified to their essential geometric elements. Subtleties in color, area, edge or orientation are the catalyst for emotive responses. Palette is minimized; the artist rarely uses a wide palette within one work. Rather, a broad range of colors are explored and then reduced. Gourlay investigates color properties: complementary or analogous color, value, saturation and color harmony vs. color anomaly.
Elizabeth’s Gourlay’s work has been shown extensively throughout the United States. The artist was the recipient of numerous residencies, fellowships and awards including Artist in Residence at the studio of Sol LeWitt in Spoleto, Italy. Gourlay’s work has been written about in The New Criterion, Painters’ Table and Gorky’s Granddaughter, to name a few. Gourlay earned her MFA at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, and her BA from Edinburgh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Elizabeth Gourlay Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Panel
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