Over the past decade, Elizabeth Glaessner has conjured a saturated and densely layered world of transformation and multiplicity. Welcoming amorphousness in her subjects and their surroundings, Glaessner’s surreal universe is populated by beings and tricksters that are pictured in states of becoming or undoing. Rich with art historical and cultural allusions, her work does not offer a narrative or fable. Rather, Glaessner evokes ambivalent moods unmoored by virtue and vice.

Throughout these works, Glaessner depicts characters questioning stereotypical behaviors and ideas of morality. The works on view present an opportunity for Glaessner to examine the line between good and evil, moral and immoral, safe and dangerous, and the grey areas in between. The figures portrayed reflect an unrestricted freedom of identity, both emotionally and physically, and are often androgynous. Glaessner frequently shows her subjects in states of ecstasy or hysteria, celebrating the purity of emotional expression that most are too afraid to confront.