Installation view: Graft (2022) oil on canvas, 76 x 70 inches
527 Madison Avenue is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Brooklyn-based painter Elizabeth Gilfilen in the Lobby Gallery from June 10 – September 1, 2025. An opening reception will be held on Tuesday, June 10 from 5–7 PM, at 54th Street and Madison Avenue. The show is open to the public 9 AM – 5 PM, Monday through Friday.
At once volatile, sophisticated, and atmospheric, Elizabeth Gilfilen’s airy and delightfully rough abstract oil paintings embody the tradition of abstract expressionist painters like Jackson Pollock. Utilizing oil sticks to add both texture and pigment on top of the paint, she embraces a sense of frenzy in her compositions, amplified by loose waves colliding with tighter lines. With their wild bursts of color and intuitive, gestural lines, Gilfilen’s paintings are both expressive and restrained—a palpable reflection of the artist’s hand.
Elizabeth Gilfilen is a visual artist based in New York. Selected solo exhibitions include Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA, The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ and Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ. Her paintings and works on paper have been included in numerous group shows including Equity Gallery, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the Bronx Museum. Residencies and fellowships include The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, Yaddo, The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Studio Immersion Project Fellowship and The Bronx Museum of Art AIM Program, among others. Reviews of her work have been featured in ArtSpiel, Two Coats of Paint, The New Criterion, The Boston Globe, The Newark Star-Ledger and The New York Times. Gilfilen received her BFA from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio and her MFA in Painting & Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
For inquiries about the work, please contact the artist at bethgilfilen@gmail.com. For more information about 527 Madison’s exhibitions, please contact Jay Grimm, who organizes the contemporary art program on behalf of 527 Madison at jgrimm@jaygrimm.com.
527 Madison Avenue is a boutique commercial office building located at the corner of 54th Street and Madison Avenue in New York City. Completed in 1986, it was designed by celebrated architectural firm FxCollaborative. The property has recently completed lobby and elevator upgrades and is owned by an affiliate of Mitsui Fudosan America, the US subsidiary of Japan's largest real estate company, Mitsui Fudosan Co., LTD.