Liz Gill Neilson is a painter, printmaker, and designer. In her recent work in painting and multimedia collaboration with musicians and storytellers, she strives to create a mythology of form that reveals the web of connection between humans and the natural world. Liz received her B.A. in visual arts from Columbia University in 2002 and shows her work in New York, Portland, OR, Virginia, and the Boston area. She and her husband, composer Duncan Neilson, live in Portland.
Liz is the Artist in Residence for the Portland Chamber Orchestra, and has recently created multimedia projects for the PCO, the Walla Walla Symphony, and the Middle Eastern Music Ensemble of the College of William & Mary, in collaboration with Duncan and other artists and performers. Her recent multimedia projects include visuals for Beethoven’s ballet Creatures of Prometheus, original story and images for Feirefiz: A Reworking of the Parzival Story, and animated visuals to accompany Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus: Concerto for Birds and Orchestra, which will receive its next multimedia performances with the Israel Kibbutz Orchestra, and with the Walla Walla Symphony in Spring 2010. Liz is currently collaborating with New York’s Moebius Ensemble on a music and visual arts concert program honoring the 100th anniversary of the Ballets Russes, and with Duncan on The Monster, a multimedia work based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, to be premiered by the Portland Chamber Orchestra in October 2010. Liz and Duncan will be in residence at Caldera Artists Retreat in central Oregon this coming winter.
Liz also works as a freelance designer, designing books, record albums, and other print material for artists and organizations; in 2007, she designed a book for artist LeRoy Neiman, published by Dark Horse Books, commemorating 50 years of Neiman’s character Femlin, familiar to many from the pages of Playboy magazine since 1957.
In 2006, with Duncan and pianist Deborah Bradley-Kramer, Liz founded the White Buffalo Music and Art Salon series in New York City, a gathering of artists, performers, speakers and listeners in an atmosphere of philosophical and artistic enquiry and community which takes place several times a year on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
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