ELIZABETH GEIGER

    Elizabeth Geiger majored in painting at the University of Virginia, and continued her studies at the New York Studio School and the Vermont Studio Center. She is married to figurative painter Philip Geiger and they have two children studying art in college.

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     Geiger has won a fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and shown regularly throughout the East Coast.   Her work is in the collection of the Sheltering Arms Hospital Richmond as well as the Clay Center Museum of Fine Art in Charleston , WV.

 

     Known for her dramatic still life paintings, she has recently also focused her painting practice on landscape. Along with her regular teaching at the Beverley Street Studio School in Stuanton, VA, she has been a visiting artist at the College of William & Mary and the Kentucky College of Art & Design, spoken at Washington & Lee University and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, taught landscape painting at the Mount Gretna School of Art and leads workshops throughout the Eastern United States.  

 

Elizabeth Geiger is represented by Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.

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                                                ELIZABETH GEIGER RESUME

                         

                                                                                            

EDUCATION

1990 University of Virginia, BA

        Vermont Studio Center

        New York Studio School

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2017  Painting Instructor, Mount Gretna School of Art, Mount Gretna, PA

2016  Visiting Artist, Kentucky College of Art and Design, Louisville, KY

2012  Visiting Artist, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2009  Visiting Artist, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA

2005  Visiting Artist, West Nottingham Academy, Colora, MD

2004 - present, Instructor, Beverley Street Studio School, Staunton,VA

 

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016, 2012, 2009 Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2008, 2006, 2004 Callen McJunkin Gallery, Charleston, WV

2004 Williams School of Commerce, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA

2002 Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA

 

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS  

2017 Inside/Outside: Still Life and Landscape Paintings by Elizabeth Geiger, Richmond

        International Airport, Richmond, VA             

2016 Summer Light, Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, VA

        Night Sun, Southside Art Gallery, University of Mississippi, MS

2015 A Lineage of American Perceptual Painters, St. John’s College, Annapolis MD

        40th Anniversary Alumni Show, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA

2014 Four Still Life Painters, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2013 Sight Specific: A Selection of American Perceptual Painters, Concord Art

       Association, Concord, MA

2012 Long Hot Days of Summer, Beverley Street Studio School, Staunton, VA

2009 Not So Still Life, and In the Garden, Callen McJunkin Gallery, Charleston, WV

2004, 2001 George Nick Presents, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA

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AWARDS AND COLLECTIONS

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship, 2007

Augusta Medical Center, Fishersville, VA

Sheltering Arms Hospital, Richmond, VA

Avampato Museum, Clay Center, Charleston WV