Last month, thanks to grants from the Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Family Foundation, I stepped outside my home studio and partnered up once again with a old friend, Jane Pagliarulo at Atelier Meridian. I had always wanted to do large prints of a specific image from particle physics…

ANNOUNCING a solo exhibition of abstract art by contemporary artist, Elise Wagner, at Frederick Holmes and Co —Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seattle, WA—Opens May 5, 2022.

James Webb Space Telescope and its first alignment images sparked a reflection on Star Cluster, one of the large paintings available in my studio collection. In the creative swirl of the time, I was thinking of particle science and Paul Klee’s Twittering Machine.

Inspired by Harry Bertoia’s “View of the Earth from Space”, my vision for a public art installation reflects how our view of Earth has changed and how far space exploration has come while paying thoughtful homage to the piece Bertoia created in 1962.

Glacier movement and other scientific ‘perspectives’ inspire contemporary paintings by Elise Wagner. Learn about the work of Edward Burtynsky and about how Elise found inspiration for a series of new prints and painting.