Congrats To Local Artist Elisabeth Condon On Winning 2015 NY Pulse Prize

Congratulations are in order for Elisabeth Condon, who was named the 2015 New York Pulse Prize winner earlier this month by a four-person jury that deemed her colorful Shanghai-inspired paintings best in show. Her prize is $2,500 and awesome bragging rights. Way to go!

Condon, who is a member of the local arts group South Of The Navy Yard Artists (SONYA) and splits her time between Fort Greene-Clinton Hill and Tampa, Florida, was one of 14 artists to be nominated.

According to one of the judges, JP Morgan Chase Art Collection curator Lisa Erf, who was quoted in the New York Observer, Condon’s paintings “convey a deep understanding of Chinese literati and postwar American painting traditions that’s surprisingly fresh and completely her own.”

Art writer Ashli Sisk also noted the following in a 2014 interview with Condon:

Looking at Elisabeth Condon’s work is akin to breathing in good soup vapors, while you feel the first drops of a rainstorm on your bare skin, while gazing into the universe, while putting on the most gorgeous thing you can find. Head, heart, and body pulled in all directions. Large pours of paint, next to little and big gestures and renderings, paint mingling and sauntering around each other’s forms, materials reacting to material guided by the hand. Meandering forms in the confines of a surface.

Talking with Elisabeth is similar — you discuss everything, go everywhere, all within the confines of the conversation, and you feel better for it.

More of Condon’s work can be viewed in her online portfolio.