Education
MFA/ BFA, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende,Guanajuanto, Mexico
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
Selected Awards
Georgia Women In The Visual Arts, Governor’s Award; 1997
EarthWatch Grant, The Erzbischofliches Diozesanmuseum Koln, an interdisciplinary
project in Cologne, Germany, June
1997.
Fine Arts Team, Teresa Norton, Director.
Artist Initiated Grant, Georgia Council for the Arts; 1992
Southern Expressions Regional Purchase Award, High Museum of Art, Atlanta,
Georgia; 1991
Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico; Artist-in Residence Grant;
1980 to 1981
Selected Solo Exhibitions
‘unbound’, new works on canvas and paper, Robert Steele Gallery,
New York, New York, April 9-May 9, 2009.
Paintings and Works on Paper, Project Room, Robert Steele Gallery, New York,
New York,
March
18-May 10, 2008.
Paintings, Cutouts, Works on Paper", Rosewood Contemporary Art Gallery,
Savannah, Georgia, March 9, 2007.
“pairs”, Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, December, 2002.
New Works, Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 1998.
“Cut-outs, Gouaches and Other small Works”, Owens-Thomas Regional
Gallery, Telfair Museum Of Art, Savannah,
Georgia,
1996.
Paintings and Drawings, A Retrospective, Morehead State University, Morehead,
Kentucky, 1993.
Paintings, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, Georgia, January 1993.
Paintings, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1991.
Selected Group Exhibitions
“Painter’s Reel”, Curated by Corrine Colarusso for the
Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia, eleven
contemporary
painters from Georgia, January, 2009.
Summer Show, Gallery Artists, Robert Steele Gallery, NY, NY, Summer, 2008.
"Beyond the Gift of Time", Current work by Former Fellows of the
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Roswell Museum
and
Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico, May 19, 2007-January 13, 2008.
"2007 Collector's Show", Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas,
selected by Ellen Plummer, Executive Director,
Curators:
Phaedra Siebert, Anne Gochenour, and Joe Lampo. November 30-December 2007.
"Georgia Painters", Macon Museum of Art, Macon Georgia, 2005.
"Live Art", Space 301, Mobile, Alabama, curated by Wanda Sullivan.
A juried exhibition of works by 20 artists from the
southeast,
October 2004-Jan 2005.
"Elizabeth Cain and Alex Powers, Works on Paper" Gertrude Herbert
Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia. April 20 - May 28,
2004.
Curated by Amy Ethridge.
“Georgia Triennial”, 2002-2003. Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah,Georgia,
curated by Louise Shaw.
“Hypnotic-Post, Atlanta Abstraction Now”, Swan Coach House; curated
by Michael Pittarri, Editor, Art Papers; Atlanta,
Georgia;
January 2000.
Selected Bibliography
Beyond the Gift of Time, Catalog; Current work by former Fellows of the Roswell
Artist-in-Residence Program,
Georgia Triennial 2002/2003, (catolog of the exhibition), Telfair Museum
Of Art, Savannah, Georgia, 2002: with color
reproduction
on page 14, (“Mud
Island Spin”, 2001), also essay by Curator Louise Shaw, page 13.
New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition- In -Print, Number 22: with color
reproductions page 24, (“Sapelo Soup”, 1998) page
25, (Romerly Marsh Maenad, 1998”), page 26, (“Ludowici Rain Dance” ,1998),
also artist statement and
biographical
information, page 27.
Donovan, Suzanne. "An artist speaks to herself, to all of us",
The Savannah Morning News, Savannah, Georgia, November 13,
2006, front page color photo, also page 1B Coastal Empire section.
Cullum, Jerry. “Sandler offers visions in sizes large and small”,
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, October
2,
1998:page Q8, with color reproduction (“Romerly Marsh Maenad”),
1998.
Herring, Neill. “Stephan Bayless, Elizabeth Cain, Virginia Derryberry,
Larry Gray, Patrick McCay, and Zdzislaw R. Sikora”,
Art
Papers, July/August, 1994, Volume 18, #4.
DeLorme, Harry H. "Elizabeth Cain", Art Papers, Nov/Dec 1991,Volume
15, #6; with a b/w reproduction ("Southern
Exclamation",
1991).
Public Collections
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico.
University of Alabama, University, Alabama
The Residency Collection, Donald B. Anderson, Roswell, New Mexico
Corporate Collections
Westin Hotel, Savannah, Georgia
Chemical Bank, New York, New York
Hyatt Regency, Cologne, Germany
Hyatt Regency, Washington, DC
Hyatt Regency, Atlanta, Georgia
Kessler Enterprises, Atlanta, Georgia
United States Treasury Department, Atlanta, Georgia
Coca-Cola USA, Atlanta, Georgia
Holder Properties, Atlanta, Georgia
King and Spaulding, Atlanta, Georgia
Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Georgia
Bank of America, Charlotte, NC