ELEANOR CONOVER is a painter whose work explores the material and physical language of abstraction as a way of reckoning with environmental time and geologic memory. Through a practice rooted in surface, structure, and process, her paintings evoke the layered temporality of place—often shaped by her research into geologic histories and ecological dynamics in coastal and remote landscapes, including the Aleutian Islands.

Her work has been exhibited nationally at venues such as White Columns (New York, NY), Abattoir (Cleveland, OH), Hudson House (Hudson, NY), Bad Water (Knoxville, TN), Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY), and the List Gallery at Swarthmore College. She has been supported by fellowships and residencies at the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, the Joseph A. Fiore Art Center, Cow House Studios, and Norton Island, among others. In 2022, she was the Donald J. Gordon Visiting Artist at Swarthmore College, and the recipient of the 2020–21 Alice C. Cole ’42 Fellowship at Wellesley College.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1988, Conover earned her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, where she also studied at the Rome campus, and received her AB from Harvard College. She currently lives and works in Topsham, Maine, and is Assistant Professor of Art at Bowdoin College.

More of Eleanor’s work may be explored on her website and IG Account.