Elisabeth Condon (American, b. 1959) is celebrated for her lush, layered paintings that merge abstraction, landscape, and decorative pattern into vibrant, immersive worlds. Influenced by Chinese scroll painting, Abstract Expressionism, and the ornamented interiors of her childhood, she begins her compositions by pouring paint, allowing chance and gesture to guide the work. Onto this fluid foundation, she weaves intricate patterns, botanical forms, and geometric motifs. Through her work, Condon reclaims decorative pattern and domestic ornament as powerful strategies within abstraction, elevating motifs often dismissed as feminine or secondary. Condon has forged a distinctive voice in today’s art world. Her paintings dissolve the boundaries between natural and artificial, chaos and order, offering a vision of landscape that is both rooted in tradition and vividly contemporary.

Condon earned her BFA from the Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited widely across the U.S. and abroad, with solo shows at Emerson Dorsch Gallery (Miami) and Lesley Heller Workspace (New York), and was featured in the Orlando Museum of Art’s Florida Prize in Contemporary Art. Her public commissions include Urban Idyll (2019), a series of 36 laminated glass panels for the MTA’s Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard subway station in Queens. Her paintings are held in the collections of the Tampa Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Hudson River Museum, and the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. She is the recipient of major honors, including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Fountainhead, MacDowell, Red Gate (Beijing), Graphicstudio/USF, and the Joan Mitchell Center.