Eleanor Conover is an artist whose work engages with the physical and material conditions of painting as a metaphor for environmental time and space. Recent past exhibitions include Abattoir, Cleveland, OH; Hudson House, Hudson, NY; Bad Water, Knoxville, TN; and Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY. She was the 2022 Donald J. Gordon visiting artist at Swarthmore College, and was the 2020-21 recipient of the Wellesley College Alice C. Cole ’42 fellowship. Her practice has also been supported through artist residencies including The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, Cow House Studios, and the Joseph A. Fiore Art Center. With an interest in land and the environment, she has additionally engaged in the research of geologic histories in Philadelphia, PA and visual work regarding ecology in coastal places as remote as the Aleutian Islands, AK. Born in Hartford, CT in 1988, she earned an MFA at Tyler School of Art, Temple University (2018) and a BA from Harvard College (2010). She received a post-MFA teaching fellowship at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and currently resides in Carlisle, PA, where she is an Assistant Professor of Art at Dickinson College.
contact: eleanorconover [at] gmail.com
Links:
Exhibition Catalogue from “Side Angle Tide” at Swarthmore College, essay by Eleanor Heartney
Press Release, “Right to Repair” at Hudson House, curated by Caitlin MacBride
Exhibition Essay for “Weather Reader” at Dickinson College written by Rubens Ghenov