Elizabeth Lide
Teresa Bramlette Reeves
Elizabeth Lide, a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia and a master of fine arts degree from Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University. She has been awarded a Working Artist Project Fellowship from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Hambidge Center, Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, MASS MoCA, and Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at MOCA GA, La Mama in New York City, and the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center and in ninety group exhibitions. Her drawings and artists’ books are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the High Museum of Art. In December 2020, she will present a solo exhibition at Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta. Artist’s Statement Preparing to work on a solo exhibition, Putting the House in Order , I organized rooms in my home and studio, allowing me to think more clearly. Touching and seeing objects, art, and papers with fresh eyes triggered associations and memories. I chose six objects passed down from my grandparents and great-grandparents, made rubber molds, and created multiples using paper pulp and pigment or plaster, fabric, and hair. I made drawings in which I organized two-dimensional space in ways similar to my approach in the spaces where I live and work, offering some order and setting up personal challenges to solve. Once again, my inclinations and methods were both meditative and contradictory.
Teresa Bramlette Reeves was born in Athens, Georgia, and received a bachelor of fine arts degree in drawing and painting from the University of Georgia, a master of fine arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a doctoral degree in art history from the University of Georgia. She serves as senior curator at the Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University. She completed a Fulbright US Scholar residency in 2016–17, working with the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. A practicing artist, she has had solo shows at Whitespace Gallery, the Jersey City Museum, P.S. 1 Museum, and elsewhere. She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Grant; fellowship residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Cité International des Arts (Paris), and the Hambidge Center; and selected for the P.S. 1 National Studio Program and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Studio Program. Artist’s Statement For many years, my work revolved around ideas of mutable histories and inconsistent narratives. I visualized the storage of memory fragments, the possibility of retrieval, the potential for multiple interpretations, and the personal and institutional desire to edit, rewrite, and obscure history. This series considers painting itself as an artifact; a remnant suggestive of a story; an object preserved and encased. The folded paper paintings serve as a tribute to my mother and her generation who came of age in the 1930s and 1940s. I made life-size replicas of paper doll clothes and housewares in paper. I then had photographs made of my engagement with these objects, a way of breathing momentary life into them. After this brief inhabitation, I folded each into a compact form to be re-presented as a fragment of a particular time and place.
Lady Vase
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