Galerie Shibumi is pleased to announce the gallery's representation of painter Liz Scheer (b. Texas, 1990).
Buddhist teacher Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche has said that a knife becomes sharp as the result of "two exhaustions"--the exhaustion of the sharpening stone and the exhaustion of the metal. In the same way, he continues, "enlightenment is the result of the exhaustion of obscurations and the exhaustion of the antidote of obscurations." Liz Scheer sharpens the knife of her 'painting-poems' by rubbing together two disparate narratives (one visual and one verbal) that have respectively 'maxed out' their claims to reality. By pairing small jewel-toned paintings with patches of fiction pulled from a nonexistent ur-text, Scheer's work portrays the unexpected clarity that arises in moments of spiritual depletion. Through its uncanny iconography born from New Age paraphernalia and the culture of New England and the Midwest, Scheer's work portrays a kind of quotidian transcendence suffused with poignancy and humor.
Artist Talk with Liz Scheer and Meghan O'Gieblyn
Enjoy a conversation with painter, Liz Scheer and writer Meghan O'Gieblyn! Meghan O'Gieblyn is the author of God Human Animal Machine and Interior States, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award for nonfiction. She writes essays and criticism for Harper's, The New Yorker, WIRED, Bookforum, n+1, The New York Review of Books, and other publications, and is the recipient of the 2023 Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
The talent
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Liz Scheer
She wasn't afraid I'd leave. She was afraid I would come back
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Liz Scheer
Let me tell you about a planet devoted to travel
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Liz Scheer
You could fit three of me in them
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Liz Scheer
'You can keep running, ' said the priest, 'but my eye is like the eye of the fly, reflecting 4,000 images of you.'
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Liz Scheer
I imagine he meant to disturb me. But I am no flower. I have been alive for more than thirty years and I, too, have thought many ugly things.
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Liz Scheer