Liz Clark (USA)
LIZ CLARK
Biography:
Liz Clark is a jewelry and metal artist living and working in Providence, RI. She received her BFA in Crafts/Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2006. Her work investigates the language of flowers and the messages they convey. Clark’s work has been exhibited internationally and domestically at NYC Jewelry Week, Sparkle Plenty at Quirk Gallery, VA, By Hand at the Attleboro Arts Museum, MA, When Given the Same Guidelines, Baltimore Jewelry Center, MD.
Collection Concept: Terra Infirma
In this three-person collective, Tanya Crane, Liz Clark and Jennifer Wells are making works that are exploring the implications of geographical displacement. Based on the book by author Irit Rogoff, Terra Infirma where contemporary art challenges issues of identity and belonging, the collective pieces interpret identity through flora, landscape and collection. While each artist has a personal history of belonging/un-belonging, immigration, and displaced cultural identity, Crane, Clark and Wells make work as a meditative act. Crane uses repetitive tick marks in enamel as markers for time, Clark repeatedly saws and rivets flowers to invoke tenderness influenced by impermanence, and Wells uses wire that undulates and swirls just as vines hold on to a branch representing new growth and change.
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