Elaine Lazarus is a contemporary artist working in painting, mixed media, and photography. Her work explores connection, perception, power, and the relationships that shape who we become.

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Lazarus’s visual language began forming early. At fourteen, she encountered David Hockney’s photographic joiners in London and was drawn to his ability to hold multiple perspectives within a single work. At Cornell University, where she earned her BFA, she studied painting, photography, digital imaging, and printmaking. Her 1993 thesis, Aesthetic Confusion, examined the blurred boundaries between fine art, advertising, mass media, and popular culture, establishing questions about perception and influence that continue throughout her work.

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After Cornell, Lazarus spent more than three decades as a graphic designer and visual marketer while continuing to make art. That experience inside the systems of imagery, communication, and persuasion she had questioned as a student became another influence on her practice.

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In 2022, Lazarus moved to Carmel, California, where she opened a gallery and developed a friendship with author and social scientist Riane Eisler. Eisler’s distinction between domination and partnership helped Lazarus give language to questions about power and relationships already emerging in her work.

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Today, Lazarus works full-time as an artist in West Palm Beach, Florida. Her current series, Mutual Power, brings together ideas developed across more than thirty years, using figures, trees, branching structures, collage, and layered imagery to explore how power moves through relationships and the larger systems that shape our lives.