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ELIZABETH HACK

Lives and works in Berkeley, CA USA
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I was born in Frankfurt, Germany in a U.S. military hospital. When I was growing through the composition, my paintings express energy and spirit. Process reigns
up, my family moved twenty times throughout the United States and Europe. with each stroke as my brush is engulfed by a territory within. Outlining the
And as we moved from place to place the art was a constant, always there to color with black ink, I continue to go deeper. Finally a painting emerges faith
keep me anchored. I made Berkeley my home in 1980 and later discovered Sea that the journey is now complete the elements merge into one.
Ranch on the North Coast where I visit often. This is where the Wave Series Presented quiet paint and ink meditations on the never-ending ebb and flow
paintings evolved. The ocean from a distance looks vast and still, and yet up of ocean tides. Lovely and serene, these works showed imperfect and varied
close reveals its waves moving and crashing. This echoes my life experience lines that rolled and oozed across the canvas. She used metallic sparingly
with the frequent moves balanced by the meditative peace that my art brings to to play up the cool greens, blues and corals that echoed a seaside palette.
me. My work consists of inner landscapes. Adding paint and ink to the canvas Over the painted surface, Hack outlined each wave’s nuance with a thin
or paper, I feel the fire or the sea or perhaps the green meadow. Excavating black line of ink. (By Christine Brenneman, San Francisco)

WAVE SERIES #38, 2004 INK AND ACRYLIC ON PAPER 23X29 IN./59X74 CM.  WAVE SERIES #99, 2004 INK AND ACRYLIC ON PAPER 23X29 IN./59X74 CM. 

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