BIO
Liz Walsh lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Inspired by the plant life and city sprawl of California, Her practice is focused on the mix between technology and the entropy of the natural world. These themes appear in her work through the depiction of cockpits and flora, as well as mythic animals and exaggerated fauna. These collisions hope to entice and repel. Painting is the primary way Liz creates but she also works with video and optical sculptures.
”Walsh brings the materiality and intricacy of previous work with clay and weaving into themes of emotionality, excess, and transformation through large-scale botanical landscapes laced with pop symbols. The subjective reality of underrecognized Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington also inspires her, in what Cecilia Alemani describes as “a magical world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of the imagination.” Perhaps, that is where the throughlines of both Linder and Walsh’s practices intersect, in building the exhibition’s titular portals for their viewers to step through.”
-Writings by Steph Kretowicz for “Portals” at Praz- Delavallade July 2023
She received an MFA in Painting from CCAC in San Francisco, CA,
BFA in Painting from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
She has attended the Headlands Center of the Arts residency as well as a residency at Cooper Union in NYC.
PRESS
https://hyperallergic.com/836969/10-art-shows-to-see-in-los-angeles-august-2023/
https://www.laweekly.com/the-emotional-environment-arts-calendar-august-17-23/
https://mailchi.mp/curate.la/this-weeks-must-see-art-events-this-week-apr29-may6-2425284?e=480a01b5ab
https://www.laweekly.com/arts-at-home-and-in-the-car-may-21-25/
https://www.laweekly.com/more-than-a-walkthrough-galleries-get-creative-in-their-digital-and-analog-adaptations/
https://www.laweekly.com/art-at-home-may-1-3/
https://curate.la/event.php?id=19394
https://us9.campaign-archive.com/?u=c5271e329f51048b508afd954&id=b9302fb0f4
https://settlersandnomads.com/blog/the-file-interview-with-la-creeps
http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-liz-walsh-liz-walsh-artist-tujunga/
https://www.laweekly.com/arts/5-artsy-things-to-do-in-la-this-week-including-kake-kake-kake-5026511
https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/Art-as-well-as-football-on-display-at-Levi-s-5693434.php
https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/new-49ers-arena-goes-for-touchdown-with-huge-art-collection-72853
http://sfaq.us/2013/04/liz-walshs-exhibition-everyone-at-krowswork-gallery-oakland/
https://www.kqed.org/arts/105111/summer_of_video_art_at_krowswork
https://www.stretcher.org/posts/people_are_a_light_to_love_at_alley_cat_books/