The SVAD Distinguished Artist Series is back for the 2024 - 2025 academic year! Join us for a talk and Q&A with artist Elizabeth Allen-Cannon. The event is free and open to the public.
Elizabeth Allen-Cannon Bio:
Working across painting, collage, artist books, and poetry, Elizabeth Allen-Cannon explores the amorphous and unstable qualities of femininity, comparisons between women and nature, as well as ancient and modern aspects of landscape. Her work engages the drama between framing device and pictorial space; the real and the abstract.
Elizabeth has participated in residencies at Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City, MO), Ox-bow (Saugatuck, MI), and Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY).Her work has been published in New American Paintings and exhibited at Nationale (Portland, OR), Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center (Chicago, IL), and Carthage College (Kenosha, WI).
In 2015, her artist book “Native Tongues” was acquired by the Artist Book Library at the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) and in 2021, received the Exile Books Exhibitor Prize at Small Press Fair (Fort Lauderdale, FL). Her artist book entitled "Heat, Tropics, Magic, Juice" was selected for an Individual Artist Project Grant by the Florida Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture. Elizabeth currently teaches in the Performing and Visual Art Department at Eastern Florida State College (Cocoa, FL).
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