About

Elizabeth has worked in paintings conservation since 2013 and has conducted environmental analysis and implemented climate control measures for museums since 2017. For eight years, she worked at Painting Conservation & Research in Marina del Rey, California.

Elizabeth Burton has also displayed her own artwork in galleries around the country and was a winner of the Congressional Art Award. Elizabeth contributes to the museum studies and preventive conservation fields as an instructor for the Northern States Conservation Center where she teaches the following courses: "Condition Assessments," "Care of Paintings," and "Museum Cleaning Basics" several times each year.

In private practice, Elizabeth has worked with the Pleasant Valley Historical Society Museum, La Jolla Map & Atlas Museum, Julian Pioneer Museum, and others. Her focus is 1850's to contemporary paintings, and she is especially passionate about working on paintings of late 19th and early 20th century California artists and heirloom pieces close to the hearts of their owners.

Projects

With a focus on modern and contemporary paintings, Elizabeth has worked on dozens of pieces by Sam Gilliam, David Hockney, and Robert Colescott. In the eight years she worked at PC&R, she worked with respected LA galleries, auction houses, and other institutions including but not limited to Hauser & Wirth, David Kordansky Gallery, Blum & Poe, the L.A. Louver, and Honor Fraser.

While working at Painting Conservation & Research, she conserved dozens of paintings belonging to the Gardena High School Art Collection alongside Head Conservator Eugena Ordonez. The collection is historically significant to the art legacy of the Southern and Central Coasts of California. Her contributions are acknowledged in Gifted: Collecting the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919 — 1956.

She has also worked on pieces by Henry Taylor, Ed Ruscha, Marilyn Minter, Kenny Scharf, Robert Cottingham, Mary Weatherford, Richard Prince, George Condo, Allison Katz, Allison van Pelt, Elmer Wachtel, Jack Goldstein, Lee Ufan, Takashi Murakami, Allison Schulnik, Mark Grotjahn, Mark Bradford, Ha Chong-Hyun, William Wendt, Eric Orr, Alfred Mitchell, Ed Moses, Lynda Benglis, Jean Mannheim, Charles Bensco, Loren Barton, Agnes Pelton, John Altoon, Edgar Payne, Charles L.A. Smith, Einar Petersen, Yolanda Gonzalez, Jeremy de Prez, Edwin Deakin, Josef Albers, Yoshitomo Nara, Granville Redmond, William Frederick Foster, Richard Carver Haines, Noah Purifoy, Christian von Schneidau, Charles Garabedian, Robert Clunie, Leon Lundmark, Clyde Eugene Scott, Maurice Braun, Bruce Cohen, Kris Kauper, Hugo Ballin, Orrin White, Joseph Kleitsch, Elanor Ruth Eaton Gump Colburn, Stanislaus Pociecha Poray, Paul Jenkins, Andre Butzer, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo (Corneille), Jack Zajac, Maxine Smith, Leona Wood, Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Yayoi Kusama, Elaine Sturtevant, Andy Warhol, Hilaire Hiler, Waldo Pierce, Judie Bamber, Raimond Staprans, Cy Twombly, Stig Lindberg, Cecily Brown, Asger Jorn, Milton Avery, Jeff Koons, Tala Madani, John Wesley, Larry Bell, Conroy Maddox, Amy Bennett, Jonas Wood, and more. 

Please be aware that most clients prefer to keep the treatment of their pieces confidential. Client privacy is of the utmost importance here at Central Coast Painting Conservation.