For many years I have traveled by car between the East Coast and the midwest. I’ve spent countless hours looking out the window, and gaining a greater appreciation for that which is cast off and thriving by the road’s wayside. I am interested in cycles of growth and renewal and I think of the repeating line in my work as charged and temporal. I travel through the work, engaging both arm and hand in order to elevate that which is at once yielding in its anonymity yet powerful in its persistence.

My line is inspired by things that are untidy and things that are unnoticed. My paintings begin with drawing and accumulated marks, not unlike blades of grass that move in unison to create a whole.

Painting, for me, is ever-reactive. And through its activity, a temporal structure is built. Less of a conclusion and more of a revelation, each mark or movement conjures the next, and a picture of time is realized.

- Elizabeth Gilfilen