Hi, I’m Liz Gates.

BIO

Liz Gates is a multi-media artist and printmaker who’s work has been shown at The Museum of Southeast Texas, The Blaffer Art Museum, The Printing Museum, Foltz Fine Art, Lawndale Center for the Arts, Monterroso Gallery, Hardy and Nance Studios, Splendora Gardens, and Elgin Street Studios. She is an adjunct professor teaching silkscreen and relief printmaking for the Katherine G McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston and a proud co-founder and member of the G5 Collective.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Deconstructing and reimagining symbols of motherhood, the navigation of tension between competing forces anchors my process. Through repetition, rearrangement, and reinvention, I’m exploring the dichotomy between parenthood and individualism, as well as the tension between the need for responsibility and the desire for rebellion.

My practice is a conjuring of the internal processes that are imperative in severing old identities so as to create space for new understandings. The resulting body of work centers around questions of gendered labor, feminist mother identity, and self-manifestation.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Review: G5 Collective’s “Ignition” at the Jung Center, Houston, TX

Don’t Mess with Texas Artists: Abstract Art Finds New Life with Texas Women Artists

Rekindling Collaboration: The University of Houston and “The Orange Show Show”

Number 1, Glasstire Top 5, Texas Emerging: Volume 3, Foltz Fine Art,  Houston, TX https://glasstire.com/2022/09/22/top-five-september-22-2022/  – 9.22.22

Becker, Chris, ‘Curators select artists who don’t have ‘egos’ for new group show,’ Houston City Book, https://www.houstoncitybook.com/foltz-gallery/ – 9.9.22

Powers, Chris, ‘UH MFA candidates launch G5 Collective to give back to the Houston Arts Community,’ UH Shorthand, https://kgmca.shorthandstories.com/g5/index.html – 5.25.22

EXHIBITIONS

MUSUEM EXHIBITIONS

Contemporary Texas Women Artists: Abstraction Here & Now, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX, 2022

ThinkInk, The Printing Museum, Houston, TX 2023

Bearing Witness, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX, 2022

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Seen and Unseen, landSPACE: a kuntshalle, Austin, TX, 2023

Because I Said So, Elgin Street Studios, Houston, TX, 2022

Maternology, Elgin Street Studios, Houston, TX, 2021

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Crossroads, Big Medium, Austin, TX, 2023, curated by Jonathan Paul Jackson

Ignition, The Jung Center, Houston, TX, 2023

ThinkInk, Luise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX, 2023

Texas Emerging, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, TX, 2022

Whole In Pieces, Monterroso Gallery, Houston, TX, 2022

This Mortal Coil, G5, Elgin Street Studios, Houston, TX, 2022, curated by Christina Rees

44th Thesis Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX, 2022

The Big Show, Lawndale Center for the Arts, Houston, TX, 2021

Emergence, G5, Elgin Street Studios, Houston, TX, 2021, curated by Sarah Beth Wilson

Rise and Fall, Rise and Fall, Hardy and Nance Gallery, Houston, TX, 2021

Disparate Parts, Elgin Street Studios, Houston, TX, 2021

Preserved, Third Space Gallery, Houston, TX, 2020

Tiny Art of Texas, 218 Co-Op Gallery, San Marcos, TX, 2019

National Flower Show, James Surls’ Splendora Gardens, Cleveland, TX, 2018

Go Forth: Women in the Arts Take Action, Continuing the Legacy of the 1977 National

Women’s Conference, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 2017

EXHIBITIONS AS JUROR

Annual Abstract Show, Hardy and Nance Gallery, Houston, TX, 2022

EXHIBITIONS AS CURATOR

The Orange Show Show, The Orange Show Monument, Houston, TX, 2023

PUBLIC ART

On How it Burns, University of Houston

PROFESSIONAL PRINTING EXPERIENCE

Sarah Fisher, embossings, When I Walk I See Things, landSPACE Gallery, Austin TX, 2023

Dana Frankfort, screenprints, One Fine Day, Basket Books, Houston TX, 2023

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE

Founder/Director, G5 Collective, Houston TX, 2021-present

Founder/Director, Elgin St Summer Intensive, University of Houston, 2021-2022

Teaching Fellow, Painting and Relief Printmaking, University of Houston, 2020-2022