Elizabeth Gahan Studios

I make art in a variety of ways including fine art painting, public art murals, temporary installation art, and permanent sculptures & installation. My artwork explores relationships between natural and built environments, public space and personal experience, local and global connections. I aim to create beauty with meaningful content.

I have degrees in Fine Art and Global Studies. The Global Studies program at UC Santa Barbara is widely recognized as one of the nation's first interdisciplinary majors in international studies to focus on globalization. Global Studies is dedicated to understanding globalization as a multidimensional, multi-level and historical process studying the social, cultural, political, environmental, and economic consequences of global flows, institutions, and processes. This education deeply shaped my world view and set in motion the content of my art practice to this day. I also have an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles where I focused on painting, art theory and curatorial studies. I then pursued installation art at the Banff Centre in Canada before moving to Seattle in 2008. I continue to develop a studio painting and public art practice from my studio at Equinox.