Painting
Elizabeth’s painting practice focuses on the human portrait. Using oil on linen canvas, Elizabeth treats the canvas with multiple layers of Venetian plaster. Her mark-making is loose, pushing the paint into the plaster, adding detail to the most important focal points of the human face.
Architectural
“Dyer explained that each room had been important at times in her life and that she thus had a certain intimacy with the spaces. And yet, viewers can't help but notice that her depictions of them never feature people occupying the spaces. What we do sometimes see, on the other hand, is the trace of the various inhabitants' presence. I view these traces as a sort of personification of the memorial energy certain rooms seem to contain. And when combined with the formal layering of actual wallpaper with the painted image featured in a number of the works, I get the sense that Dyer is gesturing to the give and take relationship that defines our relationship with the environments that surround and define us.”
