Liz Ewings: Squared Seas

November 1 - November 30, 2023

Featured Image: “Internal Waves”, oil on canvas, 24” x 24”, 2019

Squared Seas

Artist’s Statement:
My work focuses on the ocean and how every element of the living world is influenced and connected by it. I incorporate images of Puget Sound plankton that I have photographed under a microscope with abstract images of the ocean. I work in squares following the oceanographic convention of breaking the ocean into squares and cubes, bringing order to chaos. Painted squares emphasize the incongruity of imposing rigid boundaries on an interconnected ecosystem. My multi-panel pieces are painted as one, then separated and joined using spacers as a way of repairing the broken parts of nature.

Public Viewing at Gary Manual Salon:
Tues 8-6:30, Wed 8:30-7:30, Thu 9-7, Fri 8:30-7:30, Sat 8-6
528 2nd Avenue Seattle, WA 98104

Liz Ewings
https://www.lizewings.com/

Liz Ewings was born and raised in Seattle. She studied Apparel Design at Western Washington University and worked as a menswear designer in Seattle, Portland, and Los Angeles. On a trip to Australia, she saw Southern Ocean humpback whales for the first time and fell in love. She returned to Seattle to study natural science illustration and oceanography at the University of Washington. Her ocean studies led her to work as a naturalist and expedition guide in the San Juan Islands and southeast Alaska. The ocean and natural world form the inspiration for her work.

Her work has been exhibited in group shows throughout the West Coast, including the Burke Museum of Natural History in Seattle, Washington, and at the Good Arts Building during the Seattle Arts Fair. Her first public installation was shown at Occidental Park in Seattle, Washington, and she was included in Downtown Santa Monica’s Artist’s Alley Project. Her work is included in the collection of the Director of the UW School of Oceanography.

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