Liz Walsh
Walsh draws from California’s natural and urban landscapes to create detailed scenes that blur the line between the organic and the surreal. Her work includes plant forms, animals, and technological elements, combining pop influences with dense, overgrown settings. These compositions reflect inner states—memory, emotion, and the subconscious.
Recurring imagery includes cockpits, hybrid figures, and enlarged plant life, exploring tension between control and chaos, and the natural and artificial. Themes of spirit, technology, and entropy run throughout, suggesting both wonder and instability. Her work aims to attract and unsettle, presenting a reality that feels both familiar and strange.
Her practice includes painting, clay, and video, each used to explore material and meaning. Across these forms, she creates spaces where fantasy and reality meet.
She has an MFA in Painting from CCAC in SF, CA,
BFA in Painting from the of Colorado at Boulder.
She has attended the Headlands Center of the Arts residency as well as a residency at Cooper Union in NYC.
”Walsh brings the materiality and intricacy of previous work with clay and weaving into themes of emotionality, excess, and transformation through large-scale botanical landscapes laced with pop symbols. The subjective reality of underrecognized Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington also inspires her, in what Cecilia Alemani describes as “a magical world where life is constantly re- envisioned through the prism of the imagination.”-Writings by Steph Kretowicz
“Liz Walsh’s dark Pop aesthetic blends documentation of natural entropy and decay with indicators of human’s attempts to keep that entropy at bay through celebrations of moments of vitality. She confidently holds all the parts together using humor and careful looking, with a constant view to the larger cosmic forces at work” -Krowsworks Gallery
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