Georgia Elrod: Galore
November 15th, 2025 - January 9th, 2026
Opening Reception November 15th, 6 - 9 PM
Peninsula is pleased to present Galore, a solo exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Georgia Elrod. This is Elrod’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. As filtered through her imagination and subconscious, Elrod offers abundant visions of pleasure, connection, contemplation and realization. These works are created by deepening into a trancelike state and bringing ink to paper, a practice Elrod has continued for over ten years. Created during concentrated sessions throughout the last two years, the ink works capture flashes of memories, fantasies, visions and jokes. Elrod’s works are both document and resolution as they express personal liberation, exploration, embodiment, inquiry, and sensuality. Visually they bring these modes into contour, gesture, color, and surface. Simultaneity serves as foundation; the works invite us to seek and unfold into both knowing and feeling, reaching and grounding.
“It turns out, every other human being is also wired in these ways, entire systems shaped by pain and pleasure. And I can grant others the same autonomy I am learning to wield on my own behalf— how I spend my life is my decision, based on all kinds of data coming from my body. And I can grant others the same level of complexity and contradiction as I am learning to embody — we are all multitudes in process.”
-adrienne marie brown, Pleasure Activism
Selected ink works become jumping off points for Elrod’s paintings, and many of the paper and painting works are variations on the same visual moment. The works on paper are presented as a salon, perhaps a boudoir: an overflowing collection of graphic meditations. In addition to the exhibition, Elrod has created a zine that features text and drawings from her community of friends, family and artists. Each participant was mailed a blank index card and self addressed stamped envelope and invited to write or draw “something that pleases you”. The project became a collaborative gift. Through naming pleasures and joys, sharing them then becomes itself a call for joy, resistance and presence. Please take a copy home with you if you would like.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Georgia Elrod's work has been exhibited in New York and abroad, in solo exhibitions at Peninsula Art Space and Novella, as well as in group exhibitions at spaces including Momenta Art, The Painting Center, and RH+ Gallery in Istanbul. Her work has been featured in Two Coats of Paint, ArtMaze Magazine, Big Bell Magazine, and New American Paintings. Georgia was a co-director of the artist-run gallery Underdonk for almost ten years. Georgia co-founded and co-directs at RUTHANN in Catkill, NY. She received her MFA in Painting from Hunter College.
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Images: Georgia Elrod, Red Glitter Coffin, 2025, Oil, pastel and pencil on canvas, 30" x 36" & Georgia Elrod, Beefcake, 2025, India ink on paper, 8.5" x 11"