Elizabeth Neel

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Elizabeth Neel (born 1975) is an artist based in Brooklyn.

[edit] Life and work

Elizabeth Neel was born in Vermont, US. She is the granddaughter of portrait painter Alice Neel.

Neel makes semi-abstract paintings based on images from the internet. She uses a combination of gestural mark-making and figurative imagery. Her work has titles such as Sucked Up and Flushed Out.

Her work has been included in exhibitions, including Flower Power at Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc in New York, Garden Party at Deitch Projects in New York, Off My Biscuit, Destroy Your District at Samson Projects, Boston and The Triumph of Painting at the Saatchi Gallery, London.