About

Born 1975, United States

MFA, Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art

BFA, California Institute of the Arts

Solo Exhibitions 

• Betes Sauvages, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland

• New Work, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts

• Works on Paper, CCBC Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland 

Honors and Awards 

• Participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout the United States

• Creative Baltimore Fund award recipient 2008

• Selected as Maryland Fellow for Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, 2007

• Mentored by Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan 

Professional experience 

• Twelve years experience in the nonprofit sector, arts and healthcare partnerships

• Four years experience as a scenic artist in Los Angeles for clients such as Disney, Comedy Central and MTV, most notably on cult favorite Mr. Show

• Adjunct professor:

  • Maryland Institute College of Art, Photo as Muse

  • Community College of Baltimore County, Drawing I and II

  • Anne Arundel Community College, 2D Design, Color Theory, Drawing I

Contact

wade dot liz at gmail dot com

“Liz is a gifted painter, walking the tightrope between imagery and abstraction with irony and strangeness. Animated figures dance and strut across the canvas in high color—daring to go between greys and pinks, losing teeth and limbs in the process. Body parts appear and vanish. I hesitate to call the work expressionistic; it’s almost painfully created over weeks of time with a lot of self-questioning and doubt. When the painting is finished, it is an eye-jolter—triumphant and clear.”

-Grace Hartigan, 2007