Elizabeth Bahnmiller-Brown is a mixed-media artist who creates paintings, drawings, and sculptures featuring biological themes and organic abstraction, rich with color and texture.

Her interest focuses on the visual suggestion and the uncertain definition of living organisms and their environment. She often combines disciplines and enjoys using synthetic materials from her surrounding environment. Construction materials, craft supplies, and household items all come together, along with more traditional art supplies, to create her work.

Fascinated by the intersection of fact and mystery, she explores methods of scientific research, inquiry, and theory within her studio. Applying them to her synthetic structures and surfaces, which reference biological forms. The world of systematic and enigmatic is played out, alluding to the organic world yet remaining elusive in its definition.

Elizabeth studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, earning her BFA. She spent her final year of her degree program at RISD’s European Honors Program, studying in Rome, Italy. She completed her MFA at Arizona State University. From there, Elizabeth moved into working in higher education. After twenty-seven years as a professor of fine art, she retired and relocated to the Northwest Coast. In addition to her studio work, she creates large-scale installations, and handles corporate and private commissions.

Elizabeth’s work has been shown around the country and internationally. Of note, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO, New York at HEREArt, ABC No Rio, and Gallery 128. The Piazza Cenci 56, Rome, Italy, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, The Santa Fe Gallery, Gainesville, FL, Central Museum of Art & Design, Edmond, OK, The Machine Shop Gallery, Washington, MO, and the Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA.