ELISE ANSEL | 2 APRIL - 9 MAY 2026 | Miles McEnery Gallery

"For this exhibition of new work, Ansel focuses on one of the painters she most venerates: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), the great Venetian master of color. Ansel is not a passive admirer, not a copyist in the manner of painters who stand before a painting to reproduce it, to acquire its techniques. She is far more activist, feminist, inventive. Her stance is interrogative, interpretative, searching for what a Renaissance masterpiece signifies to her as a twenty-first century abstract painter who is also a woman. 'It’s not about being a channel but about being a creative collaborator in a very energizing exchange,' she said, with artists like Titian who remain 'very much alive and relevant.'"

- Elise Ansel in "Enduring Beauty"

ELISE ANSEL (b. New York, NY) received her Master of Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University in 1993 and her Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in 1984.

She has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Auxier Kline, New York, NY; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME; Cadogan Gallery, Milan, Italy; Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT; Danese/Corey, New York, NY; David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI; David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, RI; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; and The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA.

Ansel has been included in institutional group exhibitions at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME; Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME; Museum of Contemporary Art Kraków, Kraków, Poland; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom; and Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, among others.

Her work may be found in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kraków, Kraków, Poland; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN; Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science, Evansville, IN; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; Ice Miller Donadio & Ryan, Indianapolis, IN; Sopwell House, St. Albans, United Kingdom; Art Masters Solutions, London, United Kingdom; and the Spring Island Trust, Okatie, SC.

Ansel lives and works between New York and Maine.

ELISE ANSEL: Duetti

NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL | THE EVENING LECTURE SERIES

ELISE ANSEL ON HER WORK

7 APRIL 2026

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