This painting of a young  Laura with vivid green eyes, and flowing red hair, captures her adorned by a hat with white roses, just after she has voted to keep her country a democracy.,

Laura Votes for Democracy

A brightly colored collage of an old golden yellow and orange armchair.

Armchair in Golden Orange Plaid

The interior view of a vessel, whose walls are lined with cotton gloves & painted with magical symbols, on the bottom are scattered thin bones, & rising from the center is a colorfully painted hand holding a silver star.

Magic

A portrait of a middle aged man with a full beard

Blue Man

A collage of the faces of black women of many skin tones, but focused on the more melanated, juxtaposed against a sunset sky.

Standard of Beauty 

An mosaic image of a bee created with seeds and grains in the center of a canvas board. It is natural colored with black, cream, and tan tones. The corners of the piece feature a honey comb motif. 

This is a collage was from a series on that began with carefully dried daisy petals, which were tricky to work with and glue down onto the Color-aid paper. The background is a an Epson archival inkjet printed digital pattern drawn in Adobe Illustrator. A postage stamp and other papers were chosen to complement the color palette and content, and the text (species name) was typewritten on Rives BFK paper.  

Ox-eye Daisy

Paper quilling of a multi-colored hummingbird, orange, burgundy, greens, and black, hovering over a yellow petaled flower and bud with green stems, framed in black with fine burgundy line centered in the black. 

Hummingbird Greets the Yellow Flower

An abstract pen drawing of a person from the waist up surrounded by a collage of patterns from found objects, blue and green photos of water, treetops, clouds and sailboats placed in circular patterns representing the movements of breath and wind. 

Wind Patterns 

Scanned image of a pink Glossier plastic bubble-wrap case with sliding red sealer.  Inside is a rusted metal razor blade.

relapse prevention

"Encountering the Others examines how Oligarchs utilize energy to govern control over indigenous cultures. With this growth of civilization comes unexpected behaviors and new challenges such as environmental issues, tolerance and acceptance, as well as the intrusion of strangers instilling their beliefs which they perceive to be better than others." 

Encountering the Others

A watercolor painting of an imaginary island's topographical map as viewed from above, in shades of green, lavender, and brown created with sparkly genuine gemstone paints.

Gem Island

Assemblage of a drawing collage remnant with waxed linen thread knots on a base of thumbprints, castor beans and black eyed peas.

Pattern D

Multi-colored tree top with a chartreuse leg/trunk angled toward the lower left on a blue background

Tree Pose

An abstract jagged diamond shape made from 1 photographs taken at the Mega Mall 3 level escalators  . Color black with gold highlights.

Mega Mall Visions V

A mixed media assembled collage of half circles, cropped sections of circles, rectangles that are made up of a designs inspired by mold growing on coffee and white negative space between those forms. A mixture of abstract mold design in geometric shapes filling up the square white background.

Mold on Coffee

A portrait of a young woman pulling on her hair and thus tearing herself apart, surrounded by fingerprints against a gray background. 

unrecognizable

slightly elongated ball shaped soft sculpture, various shades of blue, textured fabric and smooth ribbons are woven together like a basket.

 . . . deep blue sea

This is my self-portrait (my head and neck are visible). It is made in low relief with the image projecting slightly out towards the picture plane. It is very textural as I built the sculpture using handmade paper pulp from recycled paper. It is all white, with some areas of grey and off white. 

Self Portrait

A screen printed image of a skull placed on top of acrylic paint. The skull appears to be melting and dripping, its primary color is green mixed with blue, outlined in orange and dark navy. The acrylic paint behind the skull are thick vertical brush strokes; black, yellow, teal, lime green, pink, magenta, royal blue, black. 

SMPTE Skull

A collage of a fist clenching dark "revolutionary" female swooping into a gold acrylic swirl of paint.

Revolutionary

A face drawn with color markers over a handwritten letter on lined notebook paper stares out at the viiewer. In the center of the face is a small orange envelope positioned vertically and stamped with an eye diagonally across the page. At the bottom of the envelope is a black and white cut out figure of a  white woman crouching with one hand on the ground, one hand raised near her head. She wears a striped dress.

The Eyes Have It

A painting of a flower's face, green petals with a black outline melting and presenting the form with a human lips slightly open showing a sliver of the front two teeth

Time Again

A collage of newspaper rectangles and a copper plate layered under a photograph of a sunset on off white paper 

Fire(place)

An abstract sculptural wall hanging with a fluffy blue fabric pillow floating above a polka-dotted and green duct tape rectangle with yellow 'legs' leading to round, white puffy cloud shapes.

Baby Driver

Stained Glass of a 1917 Gas Pump with same period automobile waiting to pump gasoline, with a tree and Gas Station on the background.

1917 Gas Pump

A tiny, round book featuring the moon as seen in Tuscany, Italy on a summer night

Amber Moon, Tuscan Sky

A mixed media painting that includes a large, thick, organic blob of white paint, with a prehistoric shark tooth centered on a birch wood panel.

Anemone

A white four by six inch rectangle on a black felt background. The rectangle shows an ink stamped typewriter, colored green, a grawlix on the page rolling out of the top.  To the right of the typewriter are two typewritten lines.  The top line says It was the best of times, crossed out in red, the bottom line says it was the worst of times.

Assessment: 2020 As A Postcard

a young woman in a gold jeweled dress holding a key in one hand and a wand in the other stands above green collaged image of a snake. Above her hang several bats. 

Queen of the Dream Cave

Abstract collage featuring torn shapes from photos and bright colored papers (reds, yellows, blues), music score fragments, and drips of black paint 

Laura Votes for Democracy, 2020

Liz Dodson