Liz Whalen - Staring at my Shoes

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Using material, color, and form, Liz creates felted and mixed media works to raise questions of empathy and focus through the tactility, vibrancy, and shape of wool fiber. She received her M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and B.F.A. from the University of Kentucky. In 2018, Moore was published in New American Paintings Issue #136, representing 1 of 40 emerging artists in the South, as well as featured in ArtMaze Magazine, London, U.K. She was the recipient of the Arthur Oswald Scholarship and Sam Fox School Travel Grant in 2019 to travel to Germany and Mexico researching natural fiber dye techniques and contemporary color theory. In 2020 she participated in the St. Louis Textiles Fiber Biennial. Her works have recently been shown at the Kemper Art Museum, Miami University in Oxford, Ghost Art Projects, Intersect Chicago (SOFA) in Chicago with re.riddle gallery, and the World of Co Artist Residency in Sofia, Bulgaria.