Elizabeth Gregory
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Elizabeth Gregory is an artist based in Lancaster City, PA and attends Pennsylvania College of Art and Design. Her work mixes unsettling undertones with bright and nostalgic colors that creates a blast from the past for her viewers to experience. By working with printmaking, found objects, painting, and stitching, this allows Gregory to have an expansive and immersive portfolio of work. She spent her years at PCA&D working in her college's print shop as the print tech by assisting her peers in creating prints that require various techniques. In recent years, Gregory held her solo exhibition Show and Tell at PCA&D and group exhibition As it is at the Demuth Museum located in Lancaster, PA. In the future, Gregory plans to create works that continue the story she is telling to create a larger, stranger body of work.
Artist Statement:
My body of work utilizes a patchwork of memories to create eccentric narratives for viewers to interpret. When in need of inspiration, I turn to the keeper of my childhood videos and photographs- my decrepit family computer. I find comfort in the past and often revert to its media as the subject matter of my work. Revisiting the past allows me to live in an “ignorance is bliss” mindset that reveals an awkward childhood with bright colors and pop culture references of the 2000’s. By rewriting memories and using skewed imagery, my art conveys feelings of discomfort that's emphasized through over-saturated imagery.
Having chaotic ideas paired with vivid memories forces me to branch out into other avenues to turn my ideas into tangible objects. Printmaking, sculpture, painting, stop motion, and mixed media work allows me to build a diverse body of work that spikes curiosity in the viewer and encourages interaction. All of my color choices are intentionally chosen to transport the viewer back into the early 2000’s- a simpler time riddled with internet games and poor fashion choices (that still haunt me) which are made apparent in my work.
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These various aesthetic choices are responsible for how I express myself today. By creating these works, I strive to awaken similar memories in the viewer and share the experience of reminiscing on the discomfort of growing up while confronting the past through the eyes of an adult.
