Elizabeth Knowles is a visual artist based in Norfolk, Connecticut and New York City. Her art making explores both static and dynamic patterns in nature recurring on differing scales of perception. Some are biological patterns on the cellular level of organisms. Others are geological formations reminiscent of earth’s natural landscapes. Utilizing a variety of media, her work connects landscapes and life forms, physiology and physics, death and detritus, order and chaos, and growth and form. Each shape is whole in and of itself while simultaneously connecting to a greater system of patterns. Revealing life’s rhythms, the work displays the unfolding and undulation of vibrant energy expanding, contracting, and recycling itself through visual relationships.
Recent projects for 2024 include a collaborative sculpture for the University of Connecticut Avery Point’s campus and outdoor sculptures for the Cape Cod Museum and the Village Green in Norfolk, Connecticut. For Morningside Park in Upper Manhattan, in June 2023, Knowles created three temporary site-specific floating sculptures in addition to 2022 outdoor sculptures for the NYC Parks on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and the University of Connecticut, Avery Point. Other projects include site-specific installations for UNESCO’s Artistes + Science, Monaco; The Pelham Art Center, Pelham, New York; Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut; Rockrose Lobby for Chashama, New York, New York; Flat Iron Prow Art Space, New York, New York; the New Canaan Sculpture Trail, Connecticut, NYU Langone, New York, New York; and Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, New York. Additionally, Knowles has created projects for Edith Wharton’s Home, The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts; Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, North Carolina; the Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut; Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut; the Painting Center, New York, New York; Five Points Art Center, Connecticut; Studio 80 +Sculpture Grounds, Old Lyme, Connecticut; the Kingston Police Building, Kingston, New York; Chesterwood National Trust for Historic Preservation, Stockbridge, Massachusetts; and Governor’s Island, New York, New York. She has collaborated with Saks Fifth Avenue on window installations and Vogue magazine for the “Last Look” page.