The Big Show

The Lawndale Art Center

juried exhibition

The Big Show 2024

Elizabeth’s artwork was selected to exhibit in the 40th anniversary celebration of The Big Show at The Lawndale Art Center. ‘This Is The Place (silver) is on view from June 7th 2024 to August 17th 2024. The Lawndale Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center with exhibitions that explore the aesthetic, critical, and social issues of our time. The Big Show is an ambitious juried competition, juried by Dr. Laura Augusta, that reflects their commitment to supporting local and regional artists.

It is an honour to be supported by an institution that has provided space for the likes of Dorothy Hood, David Aylsworth, and Mark Flood.

This exhibition featured the silver piece from the This Is The Place collection.

These works on linen canvas possess layers of precious metal, paint and ink.  As the light hits the surface of the works and the viewer moves around the work, everything changes. Multiple textures, surface treatments and new tones comes about as if animated so that no two viewing experiences are the same.  

The positive proclamation in “This is the Place,” emboldened in heavy modern lettering in the centre of the artwork, brings the narrative into contemporary focus while acknowledging the storied Victorian past of the patterns and textures that serve as the foundation of these works. The richness of these textures offer an extensive tactile dimension to the canvases, voluminous and vast, that sits somewhere between painting and sculpture.