Elizabeth Riegel 

My work is a deep dive into the psyche of each figure I paint. I am intrigued by all of the parts that create the person we have been, the person we now are, and the person we will become. I am fascinated by negative emotion--this stemmed from what I have felt was an inability to understand my own. In my paintings I study what pain looks like, where it comes from, what it does to us, and how we react to it. my paintings are meant to look calm at first glance, but they then blossom into this concealed reality where the psyche beneath is revealed. We are creatures of intrigue; we conceal ourselves behind a wall of what we think we are meant to be. I want to give that wall space in my work while simultaneously tearing it down.