Liz Augustine
Liz Augustine - Biography
Philadelphia area native, Liz Augustine, joined the Artists’ Guild of Delaware County while she was in high school. She attended Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, and in 1981 earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Eastern Connecticut State College.
After college, Liz enlisted in the United States Air Force, where she served as a vocalist with the Air Force Band for over seven years, traveling extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Following an honorable discharge in 1991, she returned to New England.
From 1994-95, Liz served on the Education Board of the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT. In 1996, she enrolled at Housatonic Community College for art and music instruction, where she studied under American Colorist Abstract artist, Vincent Baldassano. Liz participated in art exhibits throughout Connecticut. In 1999, she taught at Wonder Workshop, part of the Discovery Museum of Art and Science in Bridgeport, CT. Additionally, from 2002-2003, she owned and operated an art gallery featuring the works of rising local artists.
From 1997 to 2004, Liz was co-founder and co-chair of the Women’s Center at Housatonic Community College. In 2006, Liz and her husband moved to central PA, where Liz has exhibited landscape paintings and photographs in many local art shows in the Susquehanna Valley, winning awards for her work. She is a member of the Susquehanna Art Society and the Art Association of Harrisburg.
In 2017, Liz enrolled in the inter-disciplinary Master of Fine Arts program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA. In May of 2019, she earned her MFA in visual art. Her exhibition of these abstract expressionist paintings, Women.Self.Passages., was on display in the Administration Building Gallery at Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, PA.
Philadelphia area native, Liz Augustine, joined the Artists’ Guild of Delaware County while she was in high school. She attended Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, and in 1981 earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Eastern Connecticut State College.
After college, Liz enlisted in the United States Air Force, where she served as a vocalist with the Air Force Band for over seven years, traveling extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Following an honorable discharge in 1991, she returned to New England.
From 1994-95, Liz served on the Education Board of the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT. In 1996, she enrolled at Housatonic Community College for art and music instruction, where she studied under American Colorist Abstract artist, Vincent Baldassano. Liz participated in art exhibits throughout Connecticut. In 1999, she taught at Wonder Workshop, part of the Discovery Museum of Art and Science in Bridgeport, CT. Additionally, from 2002-2003, she owned and operated an art gallery featuring the works of rising local artists.
From 1997 to 2004, Liz was co-founder and co-chair of the Women’s Center at Housatonic Community College. In 2006, Liz and her husband moved to central PA, where Liz has exhibited landscape paintings and photographs in many local art shows in the Susquehanna Valley, winning awards for her work. She is a member of the Susquehanna Art Society and the Art Association of Harrisburg.
In 2017, Liz enrolled in the inter-disciplinary Master of Fine Arts program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA. In May of 2019, she earned her MFA in visual art. Her exhibition of these abstract expressionist paintings, Women.Self.Passages., was on display in the Administration Building Gallery at Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, PA.
Artist's Statement
As a woman, I have always been drawn to women’s issues. In our society, women have faced subjugation, marginalization, and abuse, whether emotional, physical, or sexual. I have also been drawn to the issue of children who have lost their “voice” because of molestation. I, too, have experienced such trauma.
I experiment with abstract narrative. In addition to abstract, some images are representational; some are symbolic, even archetypal. Charcoal, acrylic paint, palette knives, palette paper, brushes, and canvas, are my main art-making materials. Other materials, such as plastic bubble wrap and aluminum foil, are used in the creative process with the charcoal and acrylic paint, to produce varied effects in the works. Using these materials, I create images that are cathartic for me. I hope they are cathartic for others as well.
As a visual artist, I feel it is my responsibility to paint these images on canvas. There needs to be an open conversation in this country about the issues that appear in my artwork. The works are one way to stimulate this conversation.
As a woman, I have always been drawn to women’s issues. In our society, women have faced subjugation, marginalization, and abuse, whether emotional, physical, or sexual. I have also been drawn to the issue of children who have lost their “voice” because of molestation. I, too, have experienced such trauma.
I experiment with abstract narrative. In addition to abstract, some images are representational; some are symbolic, even archetypal. Charcoal, acrylic paint, palette knives, palette paper, brushes, and canvas, are my main art-making materials. Other materials, such as plastic bubble wrap and aluminum foil, are used in the creative process with the charcoal and acrylic paint, to produce varied effects in the works. Using these materials, I create images that are cathartic for me. I hope they are cathartic for others as well.
As a visual artist, I feel it is my responsibility to paint these images on canvas. There needs to be an open conversation in this country about the issues that appear in my artwork. The works are one way to stimulate this conversation.