About

Elizabeth Shanahan's art is informed by what is timeless: human emotion, our relationships with one another, and the natural world that surrounds us. Using color and reference to landscape, each of my paintings serves as an emotional self-portrait at the time of its making. In this specificity lies universality: focusing on the most personal moments of my life, she seeks to capture those moments that all of us, our ancestors, and our descendants share.

Since 2015, Shanahan’s work has been shown in group exhibitions throughout the Southeast, as well as New York and the Louvre Museum in Paris. She has had solo exhibitions at the Looking Glass Gallery in Boone, NC, and the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum in Blowing Rock, NC, and a two-person exhibition with artist Rebecca Bremer at the Nth Degree Gallery in Boone, NC. In 2017, she began traveling to show in art fairs in the Southeast and has shown at art fairs from Virginia to Florida.