A native Brazilian, Elisabeth Trostli moved to New York in 1961. She received her artistic education at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, majoring in Illustration, attaining a BFA’72 and MAE in ’76.
In 1981, Elisabeth Trostli established herself as a successful free-lance commercial artist and designer serving the jewelry, advertising, stationery and giftware industries located in Providence, RI.
In 2011, Elisabeth Trostli relocated to Sarasota, Florida. In this gorgeous cultural, cosmopolitan city, Elisabeth has truly unleashed her creativity. She works as a digital painter, bringing creative ideas and imaginings to life using modern tools of technology. Adobe Photoshop computer software is skillfully used to blend Elisabeth Trostli’s own original hand-rendered illustrations, antique papers, exquisite embellishments, photography and geometrical fractals in a multi-layered unique collage format that is both decorative and meaningful. Her digital paintings are available printed and mounted on gallery-wrapped canvas, and/or archival paper, greeting cards.
Arts Advocates Gallery | October 3–31, 2026
Sarasota, Florida — October 2026 — Artist and digital painter Elisabeth Trostli presents her newest body of work, “WHY AI?”, at the Arts Advocates Gallery in Sarasota from Saturday, October 3, through Saturday, October 31, 2026. The exhibition will be open Saturdays from 2–4 p.m.
Trostli’s new exhibition, “WHY AI?”, explores artificial intelligence as a provocative new tool for expanding the artist’s imagination.
The exhibition invites viewers to look beyond the technology itself and consider what it means to create art in an era when the boundaries between imagination, digital tools, and artificial intelligence are rapidly changing.
