News & Updates

Under the auspices of the North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show, Earthy, a public art installation, has been selected for exhibition at the Bennington Museum, June through November 2025. The show opens on June 28, 2025, from 4:00 to 8:00 pm, at 75 Main Street, Bennington, VT.

2026 will be busy as Elizabeth has a number of shows in the works. She is in a group show titled TrashChic at Jane Street Art Center in Saugerties, NY, April 4 - May 10 and a two-person show with artist Chong Kang at Washington Center of ADA Gallery in Washington, DC, also in April. She has 2 solo shows in October, one at Convey/ER/OR in Poughkeepsie, NY and the other at Wallkill River Center For The Arts in Montgomery, NY. There are always things brewing, so please stay tuned for more updates.

Elizabeth recently completed three commissions for a private client, (see image in next news story below).

Elizabeth will be teaching an Arts Administration class at Wallkill River Arts Center, Montgomery, NY on Saturday, May 31, 2025 from 10:00 am to noon. Please register through their website.

Under the auspices of the North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show, Earthy, a public art installation, has been selected for exhibition at the Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT June through September 2025. The show opens on June 28, 4:00 to 8:00 pm.

2026 will be busy as Elizabeth has a number of shows in the works. She is in a 4-person show at Jane Street Art Center in Saugerties, NY, April 4 through May 10, and has solo shows at Wallkill River Arts Center and at Convey/ER/OR, in Poughkeepsie. There are always things brewing, so stay tuned for more updates.

She recently completed three commissions for a private client.

I’m honored to be in a littlebitcreates video for inside + out. I really appreciate our friends Mimi Young & Richard Hall. If you’re looking for video production, they do great work.

I’m also in the following shows this winter. I hope you’ll come to the openings if you’re nearby.

I have 2 pieces in Your Pick, curated by the great Tara Foley and Laurie De Chiara at ArtYard, 80 Smith Street, Kingston, NY. There is a closing event this Saturday, January 25 from 3-5 pm.

I will have a 9’ x 7’ site-specific installation inside a Bank Art Gallery vault in Expressions In Every Form, curated by director Shirley Noto, opening on Friday, February 7 at 6 pm. The gallery is located at 94 Broadway, Newburgh, NY. The show runs through March 30. Gallery hours are Fridays 4-8 and Saturdays and Sundays 12-5.

A group show that I juried, You’re Breaking Up, and my conceptually linked solo show Breaking Broken will be exhibited at Unison Arts, 9 Paradies Lane, New Paltz, NY February 1 - March 8. There will be an opening event on Saturday, February 8 from 4-6 pm. Both shows explore what it means to break—and how we find meaning in the aftermath.

Elizabeth Keithline repurposes discarded wood to explore cast shadows and destruction, revealing moments of energetic growth as the flipside of darkness and ruin. Breaking Broken at Jane Street Art Center in Saugerties presents a series of her latest paintings in this vein: “Ocular 1” (2024), for instance, harbors jagged layers of wood nestled within a gnarly rip in a perfectly baby blue expanse. “Ruins 9” (2024) appears to be a landscape containing a sheath of ice and a ragged mountainous range of sorts, and her oversized seven-panel painting “Through Line” (2023) is a vigorous flow of lines and colors that appear to harmonize as they, too, rip across the wood on which they are painted, defying gravity as they go.

Thomas, Taliesin. “8 Shows to See in Upstate New York This August.” Hyperallergic, 31 July 2024. Accessed 17 August 2024 from hyperallergic.com/938865/8-shows-to-see-in-upstate-new-york-august-2024/

Listen to Liz talk to WKZE radio about the upcoming “Breaking Broken” show to open at 11 Jane Street in September of 2024.

Three decades ago, artist Elizabeth Keithline pioneered a unique sculpture technique, weaving wire around large objects and burning them out. She noticed that this method sparked a ghoulish interest among observers (people really loved the large fires), highlighting a rarely explored aspect of human nature — a fascination with destruction. While society often suppresses such impulses, Keithline believes that acknowledging and understanding our destructive tendencies is essential. Through Breaking Broken, she endeavors to confront the multifaceted nature of destruction.

Notably, Keithline employs found paint and wood, embracing imperfection and repurposing discarded materials. The pieces she will exhibit in Breaking Broken have all undergone some aspect of destruction under her hand.

In concert with her solo exhibition, Keithline will jury You’re Breaking Up, a national call for entries that focus on the topic of destruction. The exhibition will be shown at The Sketchbook Gallery, 9 Jane Street, Saugerties, NY from Sep 7 — Sep 28, 2024, with an opening reception Sep 7 from 4-7 pm.

The call for You’re Breaking Up will run from May 10 — June 1, 2024. To apply, use our online Jotform.

Jane Street Art Center, 11 Jane Street, Saugerties, NY, is a multifaceted environment that supports diverse artistic expression and exploration, featuring installation, art and performance.

The Center fosters new works and works-in-progress by established artists and exceptional emerging artists who create multidisciplinary art. The gallery is dedicated to solo and collaborative works, spanning both galleries, creating an immersive experience for the audience. Gallery North is dedicated to installation and performance including film, spoken word, dance etc. Gallery South is dedicated to 2D and 3D works. Jane Street Art Center also offers art:incubated residencies, classes, lectures, performances and events.

The mission of The Sketchbook Gallery, 9 Jane Street, Saugerties, NY, is to provide a platform for emerging and established artists to highlight drawing. It seeks to inspire creativity, promote artistic expression and cultivate appreciation for the art of sketching and the stories that unfold within the pages of a sketchbook.

I’m excited to invite everyone to the opening of Made In The Shade, a public art project created with Brooklyn residents through the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (Facebook link). It will be installed along 3rd Street between 4th & 5th Aves at Old Stone House of Brooklyn (Facebook link) in Washington Park.

The opening event is on Sunday, August 27 from 2:00-4:00 pm. “Made In The Shade” is a tribute to the parks and green spaces that allow people to gather, cool off, play and relax. Stop in or see it 24/7 through October 22, 2023.

Made In The Shade, a public art project by artist Elizabeth Keithline, opening August 27 – October 22, 2023. This exhibition is presented in coordination with Old Stone House and NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks program. The public is invited to attend a free opening event on Sunday, August 27, 4-6 pm.

Ten year old Eldon was in Washington Park underneath some climbing bars. He was concentrating on tracing the shadow of the bars onto a wood panel, but the shadow kept moving and he had to rush to capture it. He turned and looked up at the sky. What was the sun doing up there anyway?

In a warming world, shade has become a valued commodity. Made In The Shade is a public art tribute to the parks and green spaces that allow people to gather, cool off, play and relax. Artist Elizabeth Keithline recently asked Eldon and other park goers to consider the value of New York City public parks as providers of shade by tracing the shadows of some of their favorite things on 2’ x 4’ wood panels: playground equipment, a bike, an ice cream cart, a tree. Those painted panels will hang on 3rd Street between 4th and 5th Avenues along the Washington Park turf field fence. The installation can be viewed 24 hours a day from August 27 through October 22, 2023.

I’m excited and pleased to announce that Chashama has awarded my work a solo show. “Welcome Home/Shadow Home” will be open Fridays through Sundays from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm, October 21 through November 6, located at 340 East 64th Street, New York, NY.

An opening event will be held Friday, October 28, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm with Jeff Keithline and Sal Cataldi playing wild and wiry music from 6:00 to 7:00.

Special Shadow Drawing sessions will take place each Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Please come and play.

There are some really good art institutions within a 30-minute walk of the gallery: MOMA, the Met Museum, Central Park’s Arsenal Gallery, the Museum of Art and Design, the Frick, the Park Avenue Armory and the Asia Society, just to name a few. There’s so much going on in the city this fall. Make a day of it!

Listen to Liz talk to WKZE radio hosts about the new Shadow Paintings show that hung at 11 Jane Street in August and September of 2021.