Berry Campbell is pleased to present its second solo exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Osborne (b. 1936). Elizabeth Osborne: Landscapes of the Mind’s Eye features twenty-five paintings and works on paper, spanning from 1969 to 2024, offering a comprehensive survey of the artist’s distinctive approach to landscape painting. Combining emotional resonance with formal innovation, Osborne’s work explores the intersection of memory, perception, and the natural world, merging abstraction and representation to blur the boundaries between the external landscape and the inner self.
As the works in this exhibition demonstrate, Elizabeth Osborne sees “landscape” as a flexible language for exploration and reflection, of both place, its representation, and the convergence of the two. Using landscape as an interactive process to perceive and shape the world around her, Osborne dissolves boundaries between modalities and genres, achieving wholeness by uniting the moment with memory, the specific with the universal, the temporal with the infinite. Walking among her canvases in the present show, a glow emanates that fuses the acts of seeing and feeling. As Robert Cozzolino stated in the catalogue for the exhibition, Elizabeth Osborne: The Color of Light (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2009), “Osborne’s oeuvre is full of surprises, stylistically inquisitive yet cohesive, hauntingly introspective and complex in its artistic and personal associations.”
Elizabeth Osborne: Landscapes of the Mind’s Eye opens Saturday, January 4, 2025, with a reception Saturday, January 11 from 2 – 4 pm and continues through February 1, 2025. The exhibition is accompanied by a 20-page, fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D.
