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Elizabeth Shull
The Weight of It All
June 21 - July 26, 2025

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Lowell Ryan Projects is pleased to present The Weight of It All, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Elizabeth Shull and her debut with the gallery. The exhibition features 31 intimately scaled drawings rendered in colored pencil on black paper. Each piece, measuring under ten inches and presented floating within 14 x 14-inch black frames, inspires a contemplative, almost devotional mode of viewing. Created between 2022 and 2025, these works unfold like fragments of memory or sensation with intricate layers of line, tone, and gesture.

Shull’s process is rooted in daily ritual—drawing as a form of attunement to both the internal and external, to the rhythms of nature, intuition, and the body’s tempo. Her visual language, though minimal, carries a presence that is precise and expansive. Working slowly and meditatively, she embraces the unknown through mark-making. “I am the bystander, the observer, the witness, attempting to make sense of things,” Shull reflects. For her, drawing is a mode of listening—a way to feel through experience rather than define it. Initially developed amid ecological and existential disruption—wildfires, a global pandemic, personal shifts—these works emerged from a reactionary quest to digest everything. Her use of black paper, rather than representing absence, becomes a generative space where light illuminates through layered, gentle marks. Repetition, restraint, and variation function here as quiet resistances to urgency, cultivating visual and emotional spaciousness.

The exhibition's titular work, The Weight of It All, was among the final pieces created. In it, a solitary figure rides a frothy wave, held in delicate tension between surrender and strength. “Because my work is time walking—moving through time, listening attentively to what I am curious about, and finding a way to document thoughts that may not repeat themselves—this drawing, among all of them, seems much like a momentary culmination,” Shull notes, “which is a curious thought given its title and what it can signify on a grand scale.” The drawing acknowledges the accumulated gravity of experience—its heaviness, its tenderness, and its quiet grace—without declaring closure. Another piece, Full Moon Within, centers a glowing orb in the chest of a translucent figure, suggesting inner radiance and the unseen, yet certain, energies that sustain us.

Elizabeth Shull (b. 1954) is a Los Angeles-based artist originally from Southern California. Rendered with poetic sensitivity and contemplative precision, her work explores the nuanced intersections between the natural world and the internal landscape. Shull’s drawings have been exhibited with Nino Mier Gallery, New York, NY; M+B, Los Angeles, CA; Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Art Division, Los Angeles, CA; Simard Bilodeau Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; MePaintsMe; and Project Gallery V; among others. Her work has been featured in Harper’s Magazine, MajusculeThe Brooklyn Rail, ArtMaze Mag, Posit Journal, Venti Journal, and LA Art Documents. Shull holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA from Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles.


Elizabeth Shull
Almost Weightless, 2025
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Necessary Shade, 2025
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
The Weight of It All, 2025
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
I Just Want to Sit on Saturn, 2022
Colored pencil on paper
7 x 7 in
17.78 x 17.78 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Inner Light, 2025
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
As I Remember Things, 2022
Colored pencil on paper
7 x 7 in
17.78 x 17.78 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
With Reverence, 2024
Colored pencil on paper
10 x 8 in
25.40 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Larger than Life, 2023
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
About Last Night, 2023
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Choosing Where to Stand, 2025
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
When Something Is Wonderful in Front of Your Eyes but Grand Behind Them Too, 2023
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Full Moon Within, 2023
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Looking Closely But Does It See You, 2023
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in|
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Elizabeth Shull
Whispers Off the Water, 2024
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Sustaining, 2023
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Emotion Alphabet, 2023
Colored pencil on paper
7 x 9 in
17.78 x 22.86 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Light On Light, 2024
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Mystery of Existence, 2023
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Something Larger Than the Other, 2025
Colored pencil on paper
10 x 8 in
25.40 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Exuberance, 2025
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
High Emotion, 2025
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Unspeakable World, 2025
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
The Morning in Between, 2025
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
At Sea, 2024
Colored pencil on paper
7 x 9 in
17.78 x 22.86 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Winter Warmth, 2023
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Trying to Draw a Motherhood Flower, 2023
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Shine a Light Up to Space, 2023
Colored pencil on paper
9 x 7 in
22.86 x 17.78 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Getting to Know Oneself or Was It the Sunset, 2023
Colored pencil on paper
7 x 9 in
17.78 x 22.86 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Mind Blowing, 2022
Colored pencil on paper
7 x 7 in
17.78 x 17.78 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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Elizabeth Shull
Arrival of Certainty, 2023
Colored pencil on paper
7 x 9 in
17.78 x 22.86 cm
Framed 14 x 14 in
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