LIZ ATLAS

JUNE 13 - JULY 12, 2026

My work is always about the abstract engagement of formal elements, but always as a means to conjure up the physical and emotive expressions these engagements can evoke—conjured up from the deep chasm of stored memory. This mix of mind and body—formal and intuitive—moves the work beyond the balanced, towards the quirky; asymmetrical, to breath a playful dynamism into each piece ,while still emiting a fragrance of familiar formal rigor.

This conflation of somewhat divergent diretions is also at play on another axis in the work—that of painting and sculpture— delighting in muddying the distictions between these approaches.

The collaged pieces combine painterly passages with the more sculptural elements of their physical materials and delineated shapes. And as with the play between formal and emotive, here again the work creates moments where both can co-exist with equal weight, transcending the need to be categorized into one bucket or another.