BIO

Elizabeth Wiese is a visual artist and photographer whose work incorporates themes of fragility, strength, movement and grace. Her background in design and lifelong study of classical ballet heavily influence her evocative images which often contain an introspective self-portrait. Memories and connections to nature are recurrent themes.

Also an interior designer for over 25 years, she helps clients create environments that authentically reflect their own style and personality through color, texture and form. Before starting her own firm, she worked for Thomas Britt, a world renowned designer who was often featured in Architectural Digest.

Wiese has a BA in Economics from Colby College and studied Design at Parsons School of Design in New York and Paris.

Her photographs have been exhibited at Anne Henning Gallery in Duxbury, MA, Plymouth Center for the Arts, Plymouth, MA, the Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA, and Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, and the Curated Fridge.

She lives and works in Duxbury, MA.

AWARDS

Juror’s Award (Laura Moya): “Burning Inside”, Portals exhibition at Photoplace Gallery, 2022

3rd Place, Photography, “Firefly”, Duxbury Art Association Art by the Bay member show, 2023

Juror’s Award (Laura Moya): “Night Swimming”, Water exhibition at Photoplace Gallery, 2023

ARTISTIC STATEMENT

Photography is a way for me to explore the layers of time, to see that past, present and future are often swirling together. As a dancer, I love expressing myself through movement and my favorite images have a graceful, fluid quality where time seems momentarily suspended. The natural world is a big influence, stemming from years spent at my family’s nursery business where I found the quiet solitude of the trees and plants to be a refuge from the challenges of adolescence and a place where I could think and see for myself.

Recently, I have been using self portraiture to explore identity, personal significance, and the importance of objects in our lives. Using a grove of cedar trees and twisting vines as backdrops, I take myself and objects with personal history out of context, place them in this natural setting and observe the energy and emotion that ebbs and flows. Vulnerability, strength, confidence, joy, and love focus and recede. In most cases the original subjects become minor players compared to the beauty and peace of the surroundings they are in. A reminder that in the end, nature reclaims and embraces us, we are partners in an eternal dance.