Elizabeth Dimitroff

Overview
Elizabeth Dimitroff

“I’m interested in revisiting the site of a strong memory, or the way in which sentimental objects, images or pieces of music can hurtle us back in time.” - Elizabeth Dimitroff

 
Elizabeth Dimitroff’s work examines the spaces between memory and truth, anchoring figurative paintings in unnamable emotional sensations that subvert legibility in favour of an immersive dedication to mood. Inspired by cyclical time and shared memories, Dimitroff favours an openness to speculation rather than concrete narrative, pursuing the impressions of memory rather than a perfect reconstruction. 
 
In the artist’s work, the lost nature of past events is a point of connection with viewers - audiences are welcomed into her luminous paintings, only to find a softly glowing retelling of an original. An afterimage, like a memory, loses shape and fades following initial exposure, which the artist parallels in the unravelling narrative threads of her work. Open-ended in nature, her work thus allows for parallel reads and associations.
 
Dimitroff’s warm, inviting palette portrays an array of comforting spaces, forming empty beaches, homelike corners, and fragments of furniture. Further study, though, reveals anomalies within each scene, as details are blurred or absent, or identical figures appear more than once. The artist’s work posits that the apparent truth of memory is, in fact, constructed. Time is indelible in its passing, and though a figment left behind may still be present, it has a different, spectral life, animated by rules outside the physical realm.
Biography
Elizabeth Dimitroff
Elizabeth Dimitroff (b.1995, Chicago, IL) lives and works in London and New York. She graduated with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2023), and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) (2017). She presented her debut solo exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York in early 2024. 
 
Her work has been featured in group exhibitions by galleries and curatorial including: Chilli Arts Project, London (2024); Green Family Arts Foundation, Dallas (2024); D Contemporary, London (2023); Danuser & Ramirez, London (2023); NKR - Neuer Kunstraum, Dusseldorf (2022); La Casa Arthouse, New York (2021); Gelman Gallery, Providence (2017) and Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence (2017). In 2023, she was selected as a Finalist for the ACS Studio Prize x Gurr Johns x ACS award. 
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