Elisa Albrecht is from Cleveland Ohio, she was born in 1991 and studied Fine art with a focus on drawing and painting at Kent State University. Currently, her work is focused in styles from surrealism, using the techniques of decalcomania. An inventive mode of drawing with either ink or thick paint on canvas. Using wet mediums creating blots and patterns on a surface created from pressed paper or plexie glass or simply the stain of the ink itself. Using these as a starting point, Elisa finds shapes within or of the entire blot itself to work from to form an object. From those shapes, she adds lines and other various gestural marks to create various, figures, and spaces. Although the scenes that she creates on the page are mainly based on the variations of forms within the ink, the imagery is heavily influenced by themes of storytelling with comics and literature of science fiction and fantasy. As well as research of landscapes, historical architecture.

Awards:
Landscape 22 - 3rd place Honorable mention Paul & Norma Tikkanen Painting prize 2023
"Spark" ink on paper - 2nd place (Realism) Paul & Norma Tikkanen Painting prize 2022
Main street arts: Utopia/dystopia Juried show 2017 honorable mention
Landscape 22 - 3rd place Honorable mention Paul & Norma Tikkanen Painting prize 2023
"Spark" ink on paper - 2nd place (Realism) Paul & Norma Tikkanen Painting prize 2022
Main street arts: Utopia/dystopia Juried show 2017 honorable mention
Exhibits:
Upcoming! Cleveland: Waterloo arts 2025
Current group show: Cleveland Flats: Yards Project 2025
Solo shows:
Framed on Main - Solo show - 2020
William Tokarczyk Exhibition Gallery - 2016
Senior Thesis - 2015
Juried Shows:
Kent Alumni show 2024
Paul & Norma Tikkanen Painting prize Oct 3rd-31st 2022 & 2023
Pow! Juried show 2018
AAC "Women's work" Juried show 2018
Shirt Factory: Small works Juried show 2017
Main street arts: Utopia/dystopia Juried show 2017
Kent Alumni show 2017
Kent Emerging artist series Exhibit - 2016
NASAD Show - 2016
Stratosphere juried show - 2013, 2015
Upcoming! Cleveland: Waterloo arts 2025
Current group show: Cleveland Flats: Yards Project 2025
Solo shows:
Framed on Main - Solo show - 2020
William Tokarczyk Exhibition Gallery - 2016
Senior Thesis - 2015
Juried Shows:
Kent Alumni show 2024
Paul & Norma Tikkanen Painting prize Oct 3rd-31st 2022 & 2023
Pow! Juried show 2018
AAC "Women's work" Juried show 2018
Shirt Factory: Small works Juried show 2017
Main street arts: Utopia/dystopia Juried show 2017
Kent Alumni show 2017
Kent Emerging artist series Exhibit - 2016
NASAD Show - 2016
Stratosphere juried show - 2013, 2015