Callen McJunkin Gallery

 I am more interested in being expressive than accurate, I'm really drawn to familiar things. The actual subject matter is not as important to me as the familiarity. I do not paint from photographs because they distort things; and I do not paint from memory. I want to experience the subject as I am painting it. I want the excitement to be right in my face.

Elizabeth Geiger paints fresh, immediate still life and landscape paintings of domestic objects and vintage neighborhoods. She paints from direct observation and experience, not relying on memory or photography for information. "Don't paint something as it actually is; paint it as it appears to you", admonished the great Manet. Geiger does just that. She relies on her experience and familiarity with the object to express in paint those qualities that bring the object to life.

Geiger was born in Charlottesville, and educated at the University of Virginia. She continued her art education at the Vermont Studio Center, where she studied with Nell Blaine, Bernard Chaet and George Nick. She also studied at the New York Studio School, studying with Graham Nickson. Geiger maintains an active exhibition schedule, and is garnering attention throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic in regional, juried and invitational exhibitions. The mother of two young children, Geiger is married to fellow artist and Professor, Philip Geiger. They reside in Charlottesville, Virginia.