Eliza Douglas GHOSTS

Eliza Douglas makes paintings that openly acknowledge their own constructedness. Her work is often built by folding iconography from advertising and popular culture into gestural abstraction, producing “meta-paintings” that respond to painting’s history while also treating the medium as an object with a marketable identity. For GHOSTS, Douglas extends that approach into mixed-media reworking. She combines oil and acrylic gel medium paintings with manipulated UV prints derived from photographs taken by her aunt, Leslie Kean. By layering these photographic intrusions into her own canvases—partially veiling them—Douglas turns private visual evidence and sensational public imagery into a surface where looking, belief, and authorship remain unresolved. She also works across performance, music, fashion, photography, and sculpture, using different formats to pressure-test what counts as originality and what a viewer considers “authentic.”