Elise P. Church

ROY Alum, 2016

I submitted to a call for entry in 2015, and exhibited in 2016. Before being selected, I had completed one solo exhibit. To exhibit with ROY gave me new confidence and validated my work. It was truly a spring board for me.

ROY was in the old High Street space at that time, and I had one side of the two- space gallery for my exhibition. Ken, the gallery director, supported the experimental installation that I was seeking. I was able to present my work in a manner that fit the shaped paintings on paper. Now ten years later, I appreciate the uniqueness of that experience.

I have a great fondness for ROY G BIV. There are so few opportunities for artists, and there are too few galleries that provide such robust support of emerging artists.

Showing at ROY gave my career a boost and I hope the Gallery provides the same for more artists in the future.

https://www.elisepchurch.com/

Bio. Elise was born Boston, MA in 1965. She has had solo exhibitions in New York at Catskill Arts Society, Garrison Art Center, Gallery Molly Krom, Happy Lucky No.1 Gallery; Roy G. Biv Gallery in Columbus, Ohio and selected group shows in New York, Massachusetts, Venice, Paris and Bermuda. Her publications include The Royal Gazette(Bermuda), 2024; DART International Magazine, 2018 and ArteFuse, 2015. She’s been a resident fellow at Monson Arts in Maine 2022, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Virgina 2019 and Yaddo in New York 2017. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and son and works as an Anaplastologist.