Elise Beaucousin is an artist who lives and works in Paris, France as well as le Loir-et-Cher. Beaucousin focuses on intricate mark making that renders both sheer and illusionistic surfaces. The artists’ work captures the tactile with the tangible that suggests both crumpled up and woven surfaces.

Movement Perpétuel (encore) and Movement Perpétuel (dissection approfondie), from 2010, capture abstract forms that look like fissured swaths of cloth that float and suggest the trace of dance movements. (velours) from 2012 portrays a vast surface, similar to fabric, that hews together in hem-like lines that eventually meander into a complex geography. This piece serves as a compliment to an earlier drawing from 2010 titled (dessin sur papier) featuring only a gray, matte surface.

Since 2008, Elise Beaucousin has had five solo shows that began with Resersibilité at the Galerie Artem in Quimper, France and another at the Galerie Premier Regard in Paris. The following year the artist received another solo show Pièces Froides at the Musée Dupuytren in Paris. Mouvement perpetual took place in 2010 at the Galerie Cour Carrée in Paris. Her work has also appeared in an array of group shows throughout Paris, Bourges, Vitry-sur-Seine and Angers. Beaucousin is currently working to combine the elements of music, breath, light and transparency in preparation for her upcoming solo show Accélérer that will appear at the Galerie Cour Carrée in Fall 2012. In 2019 Elise Beaucousin exhibited Antichambre at the Alta Volta Agency and was awarded a studio at the Berlin Sessions Residency. In 2020 this was followed up by another two-month residency in Berlin as well as an invitation by L’école de Beaux-Arts d’Angers to exhibit drawings in the form of a reflective, experimental installation.