Whiskers of Memory

Marshall Illinois artist and former Swope Art Museum curator Elizabeth Lisa Petrulis’ solo show featured her exploration of color and gesture in the context of a ten-year sojourn into the expressive potential of her creature subjects: dogs, cats and horses.

The works vary in size and media, ranging from majestic 4’ x 4’ drawings such as Binary Star to small colorful glimpses of brief moments in the lives of her animal companions as in Sniff. 

Petrulis states: Animals have been my friends, my amusement, and helped me through awkward times.  I paint them with curiosity and joy.  In earlier works, a classic pallet of black and white spotlights the animal’s elegance and peculiarities.  In more recent paintings color is let loose.