Elizabeth Malaska: 2025 Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting

Utah Museum of Contemporary ArtScore 77.6

Elizabeth Malaska’s paintings unfold like scenes from a dream. A woman emerges from the body of a cow. Figures dissolve into walls or blur into fields of color. Domestic spaces—wood paneling, patterned floors, familiar furniture—become unstable, tilting toward the uncanny. Her imagery draws on both the everyday and the mythic, collapsing the two into unsettling tableaux. At times, the body is rendered with exacting…