Artist Lecture: Eleanor Conover

Eleanor Conover is an artist whose work engages with the physical and material conditions of painting as a metaphor for environmental time and space. Recent exhibitions include a solo presentation at the Independent in New York, NY with Abattoir; Halsey Mckay Gallery, East Hampton, NY; White Columns, New York, NY; Abattoir, Cleveland, OH; Hudson House, Hudson, NY; Bad Water, Knoxville, TN; and Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY. She was the 2022 Donald J. Gordon visiting artist at Swarthmore College, and was the 2020-21 recipient of the Wellesley College Alice C. Cole '42 fellowship. Her practice has also been supported through artist residencies including The Tides Institute, The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, and Cow House Studios. With an interest in land and the environment, she has additionally engaged in the research of geologic histories in Philadelphia, PA and visual work regarding ecology in coastal places as remote as the Aleutian Islands, AK. Born in Hartford, CT in 1988, she earned an MFA at Tyler School of Art, Temple University (2018) and a BA from Harvard College (2010). She received a post-MFA teaching fellowship at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and currently lives in Topsham, ME, where she paints and is an Assistant Professor of Visual Art at Bowdoin College. NOTE: Paid parking is available in Folk Hall parking lots. Scan the posted signs to pay by the hour.