I got a note the other day from New York artist Liz Quizgard, whose work I first saw this summer in a solo show at the Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. I had been asked to review the show and was lucky to talk with Quisgard on the day I went.Her work is divided between painting and needlepoint and both make great use of color in a technique that the artist calls 'pseudo-pointillism'. Quisgard does not like having to use the term needlepoint for her fiber works ('sounds too much like things my aunt did') but in the end she says with a laugh that that is what it is. Obsessive geometric patterns dominate both paintings and needlepoint works. Does it have any meaning? None at all, says Quisgard, who firmly believes that the visual arts are just that: visual.
When at university, Quisgard intended to become a serious philosopher, on the lines of Plato or Kant, but she came to the conclusion that there was no truth. Art was the winner. Now in her early 8o's, she continues to rollick along the path of beauty, committed totally to her art and bubbling with esprit.
