Liz Markus paints to see what her paintings look like, often working on multiple, related series simultaneously. Her work is informed by her experience growing up as Gen X and influenced by the AbEx, Color Field, and Pop, whose work she absorbed when spending countless hours at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY, where she grew up.

Markus uses bold and colorful washes of acrylic paint usually on unprimed canvas. Her process is intuitive but often inspired by continuing points of interest including portraits of socialites, hippies, dinosaurs, and cheeseburgers.  She has recently returned to her Socialite series, feeling drawn to portraiture, complicated renderings, and a desire to use her well-earned drafting and painting skills.

Liz Markus (b.1967, Buffalo, NY) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Markus earned her MFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1997, and her BFA at School of Visual Arts in New York in 1989.

Liz Markus has mounted solo exhibitions internationally at Loyal Gallery (Stockholm), Stems (Paris), Maruani Mercier (Brussels), Unit (London), Shrine (New York), Nathalie Karg (New York), and White Columns (New York). Group museum exhibitions include “A New Subjectivity” curated by Jason Stopa with Katherine Bernhardt, Kathy Bradford, Rose Wiley, and Jackie Gendel at Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York, Fine Arts Center Gallery at University of Arkansas, and The Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University, and Wesleyan Center for The Arts, and “Domestic Seen”, a group exhibition curated by Bruce Hartman at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City.