About
My work is an exercise in contradiction. Rooted in the language of Abstract Expressionism and creating a personal visual vocabulary of queer abstraction, the work sits at the intersection of abstraction and representation. I am interested in patina, and the in-between spaces. In the tension between erosion and sediment, between public and private, between the wandering lines and the pooling of pigment. I am interested in excavating intergenerational memory, and a liminal beauty of queerness.
To cobble. To fragment. To mark. To press. To change course. To repeat. To remain. To crack. The practice full of play and acts of small rebellion.
Elizabeth Massa is a queer multi-disciplinary artist based in New Jersey. She is a printmaker, photographer, and teaching artist. She holds a BA in American Studies from Smith College and Graduate Certificate in Documentary Photography and Ethics from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. She studied photography and book arts at the Herron School of Art and Design, as well printmaking and street photography at Scuola Interazionale di Grafica, Venezia. She is a graduate of The Institute of Culinary Education, NYC. Elizabeth is a Clark University MFA’27 candidate.
