Eliza Douglas
Eliza Douglas (born 1984) is an American painter who lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany and New York City. Life. Douglas grew up in the West Village in New York City. She holds a BA in film studies from Bard College, and attended the Städelschule in Frankfurt-Am-Main from 2015-2017. There she studied with Willem de Rooij. Aside from being an artist Douglas has worked as a model for Balenciaga and Vetements. Artwork. Douglas's work is interdisciplinary and ranges from paintings to performance. She began painting while at the Städelschule. Her paintings are conceptually driven  and combine realism, abstraction, and humor. In some pieces, Douglas hires a technical painter to render the more realistic elements. Douglas has also collaborated with artist Puppies Puppies. She cites Monika Baer and Maria Lassnig as inspirations. Her work has been exhibited at Museum Folkwang, Essen, , Berlin, and the Jewish Museum, New York. Performance. Douglas is known for her collaborations with the German artist Anne Imhof. For the 2021 Carte Blanche at Palais de Tokyo, Douglas wrote and produced the music, did the art direction, casting, styling and performed for Imhof's artwork titled "Nature Mortes". Douglas also co-created  the music and performed in "Sex", Imhof's 2019 piece for the Tate Modern and "Faust", at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, which won the Golden Lion . She has performed for "Angst I" at Kunsthalle Basel in 2016 and "Angst II" at the Hamburger Bahnhof also in 2016. Douglas has toured with Antony and the Johnsons (2006) and Devendra Banhart (2004-2006). Personal life. Douglas is the great-granddaughter of Dorothy Wolff Douglas, who was a professor of economics and departmental chair at Smith College. Her pieces, "Shadow and Light" and "Blood and Bones" are in Dorothy's memory . They were commissioned by and first exhibited at the Jewish Museum, New York