Massachusetts native Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern received a Bachelor of Arts from Boston University, and went on to The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and completed her studies at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM, where she studied extensively under the tutelage of famed abstractionist Helen Frankenthaler.

Her abstracts are colorful layers of paint, where initial ideas are developed, altered and extended. Elizabeth’s ideas come from her experiences in nature, culture or life. She is fascinated by how contemplation, imagination and time alter the memory of an experience. “My work is an attempt to reflect the memory of color, light, and space of an experience and how one layer of each influences another”.

Elizabeth's abstract paintings have been exhibited widely in the Boston and New England area, as well as in Maryland, New Mexico and abroad. Her work has been exhibited in Angola, Ukraine and Bahrain through the United States Department of State’s American Artist Abroad and Art in the Embassies Programs.

Her work has been reviewed in the Boston Globe, Harvard Spirit, and in Art New England, and is in numerous corporate and private collections including the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, Prudential Insurance, Boston, MA, Dunkin Donuts Corporate Headquarters, Boston, MA and Bank of America, San Francisco, CA.