an artistic dialogue between order and chaos from the lens of Washington’s iconic buildings.

In this exhibition, the artist plays with stretched and unstretched canvas in an expanded definition of painting to create a sense of departure, journey, and arrival.

Through the medium of mixed-media painting, the exhibition explores the notion of the border and edge between building and nature; here and there; and now and the then.

The tablecloth is a symbol of the Portuguese passion for getting together over a shared meal and represents the strength and resilience of the Portuguese woman immigrant.

In Terra Firme/Terra Frágil, Elizabeth Casqueiro addresses the transformational place at the intersection of the built environment, nature, and the self.

In Connected Spaces, Elizabeth Casqueiro explores, with sculptor Jean Sausele-Knodt, the meaning of human connection with the built and natural environment.

For Elizabeth Casqueiro, comic books and american brands were some of the few artifacts of international media that she could access while growing up under a dictatorship in Portugal.

Elizabeth Casqueiro explores the over-the-top excitement of comics and childhood games through exuberant paintings, wall hangings, and ceramic sculpture.

Elizabeth Casqueiro explores connections between the inner and exterior world through abstracted painting and mixed media.

Elizabeth Casqueiro’s work is an exploration of masked identity in its many forms and purposes. She is interested in how, from an early age, we acquire and shed identities as seamlessly as an accomplished stage actor or fictional superhero.

The allure of the mask is that it allows miracles to happen. We can become powerful, beautiful, eternal. The mask is our doorway to a supernatural world of unlimited possibilities. With a mask, even the weak and fearful can be strong and heroic.