ELIZABETH ARZANI

As an interdisciplinary assembler, Elizabeth constructs narratives from moments of curiosity, absurdity, and potential humor in happenstance. Her impulse to collect and her desire to recycle is a search for connection and an attempt to collaborate with the unknown. Working between painting, sculpture, and printmaking practices reveals allegorical relationships embedded in materiality. Stories are told in the cracks and creases, stains and rust of physical objects, layered with Elizabeth’s own mark-making. They become site-specific maps of a place, offering a form of communication that extends language.

Elizabeth Arzani is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living and working in Portland, Oregon. As a collector of sorts, her work is rooted in storytelling, offering a form of communication that extends language. Elizabeth has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally at The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture in Portland, Oregon, CoCA (Center for Contemporary Art) in Seattle, Washington, Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, North Carolina, City Hall Rotunda Gallery in Rock Hill, North Dakota, and during Luxembourg Art Week in the Salon 2019 du Cercle Artistique de Luxembourg. She has also participated in the Kulturschapp Artist Residency, transforming a former freight depot in Walferdange, Luxembourg into a site-specific installation, and has collaborated on public art installations with Shunpike’s Storefronts Project at Amazon Headquarters. Elizabeth is currently an MFA Visual Studies candidate at Pacific Northwest College of Art and holds a BFA in Painting and Art Education from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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