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Liz Craft

Artist Liz Craft realizes sculptures, assemblages, and collages employing materials associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement of the late 19th-century—yarn and ceramic, for instance—and combining them with more industrial materials such as paint, metal, and fiberglass. Craft often uses bright colors and familiar forms, from flowers to a clown face or a sofa, along either with abstracted imagery or in unexpected pairings; her finished works are dependably playful and surreal, capable to shedding new light on familiar objects.


Craft has been the subject of a solo exhibition at the Lever House in New York. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Migros Museum in Zurich and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. In 2004, Craft was included in the Whitney Biennial in New York. 

Born 1970
Hometown Los Angeles, CA
Lives and Works Los Angeles, CA
Education
MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 1997
BA, Otis Parsons, Los Angeles, CA, 1994

SHOWS

Whitney Museum of American Art

New York
May 13 2016 - Aug 21 2016

Mirror Cells

Real Fine Arts

New York
May 07 2016 - Jun 05 2016

Liz Craft

Real Fine Arts

New York
May 07 2016 - Jun 05 2016

Blow Me
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