Elsa Ers Artwork Series Description

Body is a Temple - Artwork description by critic Jennifer Navva Milliken

Elsa Ers' newest series of paintings, titled Body is a temple, presents highly abstracted yet figural compositions that raise questions on the dichotomies between the sanctity of the spirit and the temporal flesh.  driven by extensive experiments in process that are - in and of themeselves - excavations of the terrestrial female body, ers' large-scale mixed-media paintings summon the opposing realms of the sublime and the profane, whose locus is found in the human form ...