Biography

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   Elizabeth Langer is a painter, collage and print maker working in New York City. She studied painting and drawing at the Corcoran College of Art in Washington DC with William Christenberry and privately with Joyce McCarten. She has also studied at the Washington Studio School, the New York Studio School and with master printmaker Krishna Reddy at Robert Blackburn’s Printmakers’ Workshop.

In addition, she is an attorney and member of the District of Columbia and New York Bars, having earned a BA cum laude from Barnard College and a JD from Rutgers School of Law in Newark where she was a founder and editor-in-chief of the “Women’s Rights Law Reporter”. After graduation from law school, she was Legislative Assistant for Congresswoman Bella S. Abzug (Dem. NY), later a trial attorney with the US Department of Justice, and subsequently in the private practice of law. Law practice gave way to full time work as an artist in recent years.

Her drawings, paintings, collages and monotypes have been exhibited at the Corcoran Museum Gallery in Washington DC, the Courtyard Gallery, the Washington Studio School and the Alexandria Art League in numerous juried exhibitions. A solo exhibit of her photographs “A Sabbatical in Israel” is currently on exhibit at the Frankel Hall Gallery, B’nai Jeshurun, 257 West 88th Street, New York City. Her work is included in private collections throughout the United States and abroad. She was formerly represented by Barbara Rose’s Collectors’ Gallery in Manhattan and is currently with the Shaw Cramer Gallery in Vineyard Haven, MA. Her most recent solo exhibition was at the FXFOWLE Gallery in New York City.

She is married to Richard H. Chused, Professor of Law at New York Law School. They have two sons, Benjamin Chused, a recent MBA graduate from Babson College in Massachesetts, and Sam Langer, who works in advertising in New York City.