Liz Walsh
Liz Walsh is a multidisciplinary artist currently living and working in Los Angeles, CA.
Drawing inspiration from California’s sprawling landscapes—both natural and urban—Walsh creates intricate tableaux that blur the boundaries between the organic and the surreal. Her work is infused with motifs of plant life, animal forms, and technological elements, weaving together vibrant pop aesthetics with overgrown, untamed gardens. These compositions act as portals into internal landscapes, reflecting emotions, memories, and subconscious narratives.
Recurring themes in Walsh’s work include the depiction of cockpits, mythic creatures, and exaggerated flora—symbolic elements that explore the tension between control and chaos, the natural and the artificial. Spirits, technology, and entropy emerge as central forces in these worlds, evoking a sense of wonder while also hinting at the fragility of human and ecological systems. Through the interplay of these elements, Walsh seeks to both entice and unsettle the viewer, offering a vision of reality that feels at once familiar and otherworldly.
Her practice spans a variety of media, including clay, video, and painting, each chosen for its ability to expand the dialogue between materiality and meaning. Whether sculpting organic forms, layering digital imagery, or composing painterly dreamscapes, Walsh’s work invites the viewer to navigate a space where fantasy and reality continuously collide.
She has an MFA in Painting from CCAC in SF, CA,
BFA in Painting from the of Colorado at Boulder.
She has attended the Headlands Center of the Arts residency as well as a residency at Cooper Union in NYC.
”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.”-Writings by Steph Kretowicz
“Liz Walsh’s dark Pop aesthetic blends documentation of natural entropy and decay with indicators of human’s attempts to keep that entropy at bay through celebrations of moments of vitality. She confidently holds all the parts together using humor and careful looking, with a constant view to the larger cosmic forces at work” -Krowsworks Gallery
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