Elizabeth Alexander

Patton Norwall Lemur Green

Hand-cut wallpaper, cast paper, mat board, glue

"Regarding home as a place that is shaped by our stories and bears witness to our secret lives, I explore ways we are shaped by our homes and the activity within them. It is the place where hidden values and power structures are taught, enacted, and reinforced—where one’s security and safety can turn on a dime. Familiar domestic forms are often blended with cast storm debris and paper flora to imbue these objects of order and comfort with the unpredictability and slow evolution of the natural world.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

About the artist

Elizabeth Alexander

I am an interdisciplinary artist specializing in sculptures and installations made from deconstructed domestic materials. I hold degrees in sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy, MFA, and Massachusetts College of Art, BFA, where I discovered the complex nature of dissecting objects of nostalgia. My work has exhibited across the country at institutions including the Museum of Art and Design, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, the Nasher Museum at Duke University, the Currier Museum and is included in permanent collections at the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, AR, Fidelity, and the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC. I am represented by K Contemporary and an Artist Partner with Hodges Taylor. I am currently an Associate Professor and Sculpture Department Coordinator at Montserrat College of Art.