Elyce Abrams

Works
  • A Year
    A Year
  • All Mine
    All Mine
  • Always Forever
    Always Forever
  • Always Thinking of You
    Always Thinking of You
  • Covering With Memories
    Covering With Memories
  • Impossible To Forget
    Impossible To Forget
  • Silence
    Silence
  • Thinking of You In The Sunshine
    Thinking of You In The Sunshine
  • Through It All
    Through It All
  • Unhurried
    Unhurried
  • #10/50 Paintings
    #10/50 Paintings
  • #37/50 Paintings
    #37/50 Paintings
  • #5/50 Paintings
    #5/50 Paintings
  • #8/50 Paintings
    #8/50 Paintings
  • Vibrant acrylic painting on wooden panel by Elyce Abrams
    Climb
  • In Order
    In Order
  • Lavender Lines
    Lavender Lines
  • Pressure
    Pressure
  • Red Lines
    Red Lines
  • Resting
    Resting
  • Waiting
    Waiting
  • Dynamic acrylic painting on wooden panel by Elyce Abrams
    Before All of This
  • Can We Get Back
    Can We Get Back
  • Back Again and Again
    Back Again and Again
  • Finding A Place To Think
    Finding A Place To Think
  • Finding the Light
    Finding the Light
  • Free
    Free
  • Getting Closer
    Getting Closer
  • Finding a Way Out
    Finding a Way Out
  • Hanging in
    Hanging in
  • Happiness In Everything
    Happiness In Everything
  • Hopeful
    Hopeful
  • Leaving That Behind
    Leaving That Behind
  • Looking for Comfort
    Looking for Comfort
  • Made for Me
    Made for Me
  • Never Too Much
    Never Too Much
  • Not There Yet
    Not There Yet
  • On the Other Side
    On the Other Side
  • Our Place
    Our Place
  • Out of Place
    Out of Place
  • Planning for More
    Planning for More
  • Reading
    Reading
  • Rebuilding
    Rebuilding
  • Remaining Focused
    Remaining Focused
  • Right in Front of Me
    Right in Front of Me
  • Searching Everywhere
    Searching Everywhere
  • So Much to Do
    So Much to Do
  • Standing Tall
    Standing Tall
  • Unavoidable
    Unavoidable
  • Warmth
    Warmth
  • Weekdays
    Weekdays
  • Window
    Window
  • Winter Storm
    Winter Storm
Overview
An abstract artist who creates intimate paintings that explore personal histories through texture and brushstrokes, depicting the competing forces of fear and acceptance, compliance and resistance, isolation and connection. Her technically complex style, use of color and patterning, encourages viewers to question what they are looking at.

Elyce Abrams is an abstract artist known for her intimate paintings that capture personal histories through texture and brushstrokes. Her works depict the competing forces of fear and acceptance, compliance and resistance, isolation and connection. With a technically complex style, Abrams creates a new landscape that encourages viewers to question what they are looking at through her use of color, lights, and patterning.

 

Born in South Africa, Abrams received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and her MFA from the University of the Arts: Philadelphia in 2004. She was awarded an Artist's Grant to the Vermont Studio Center in 2005. Currently based in Pennsylvania, Abrams has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States since 1999.

Biography
Elyce Abrams
Through texture and brushstrokes, Elyce Abrams constructs personal histories in her abstract paintings, exploring themes of fear, acceptance, compliance, and resistance. Her use of color, lights, and patterning creates a dialogue that intrigues and challenges viewers to question their perception of the painting. With a background in the arts, Abrams has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and has received numerous grants and awards to support her work.

In her intimately scaled abstract paintings, artist Elyce Abrams constructs personal histories by recording significant experiences and memories from her life. Abrams’ use of texture and brushstrokes is technically complex as she metaphorically frames abstracted memories to derive a new landscape. Within that landscape, she depicts competing forces of fear and acceptance, compliance and resistance, isolation and connection in order to understand and frame a constantly changing reality. In addition, Abrams’ use of color, lights, and patterning creates a dialogue that intrigues the viewer and encourages them to question on many levels what they are really looking at.

 

Born in South Africa, Abrams received her BFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and her MFA from the University of the Arts: Philadelphia in 2004, and was then awarded an Artist's Grant to the Vermont Studio Center in 2005. Currently living and working in Pennsylvania, she has shown frequently in its city galleries in both solo and group exhibitions, as well as from New York City to Delaware to Ohio since 1999.

Exhibitions
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