Elizabeth Flood
Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing
Elizabeth Flood is an Assistant Professor in Painting + Drawing at SUNY Purchase. She earned her MFA in Painting from Boston University, and her BA in History and Religious Studies from the University of Virginia. Flood was awarded two Visual Arts Fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in 2021 and 2022. In 2019, Flood was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was an artist-in-residence at the Studios at MASS MoCA.
More About Me
Most Recently, Flood’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Storage Gallery in New York, and Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut. Flood is the recipient of several grants and awards including the Real Art Award, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Graduate Fellowship, and the Boston University John Walker Alumni Award. She has taught painting and drawing at institutions throughout the Northeast. Flood is originally from Virginia and lives and works in Beacon, NY.
Her work surveys complex layers of expression within the American landscape. In her painting and drawing practice, Flood contends with turbulent weather conditions while responding to the environment. She witnesses the history, erosion, and constant re-formation of the land and sea, carving out a site of impact and endurance through her own gestural expression. Her multicanvas paintings draw color from the atmosphere and terrain, often incorporating material from the landscapes themselves. Their gritty, relief-like surfaces connote calluses, and etched stone. Flood’s practice takes place on public lands, most recently at the Cape Cod National Seashore. Like the nearby life-saving stations, which once kept watch for shipwrecks on sandbars, Flood keeps vigil over a turbulent and vital topography, creating an entropic interpretation of the landscape today.
Representative Courses
Painting 1
Painting 2
Onsite Painting