About this Event
Originally from Mexico City, Elizabeth Z. Pineda is a photographer and emerging artist based in Surprise, Arizona. Her work explores complicated issues regarding immigration, identity, displacement, and migrant deaths that occur in the Arizona desert.
Pineda speaks visually of community, touching on language barriers, culture, and society. Her practice is rooted in the craft of hand-made objects as an expression of her deep ties to the subject matter using historic and untraditional processes including photography, printmaking, papermaking, and book art processes. Elizabeth holds an MFA in Photography from Arizona State University.
The studio tour will be followed with a Q&A and presentation about recent projects and the wide range of photo processes she uses to present her work; techniques that range from traditional silver prints, to copper plate photo gravures, to large-scale inkjet prints on silk, and cyanotypes printed on corn husks.
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About the Artist
Pineda’s unique life experiences and rigorous artistic discipline have resulted in a wonderfully courageous oeuvre – particularly for an emerging artist. Her piece, La Señora, won first place for Black and White at FotoNostrom magazine’s 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. Additional pieces made by Pineda were awarded with honorable mentions in that same competition. In 2021, she won first place with the artwork, Las Huellas de Mi Gente, at The Lights Artspace’s Visions of Nature, Contemporary Views in Alternative Photographic Techniques in Silver City, New Mexico.
Juror Christopher James wrote about Pineda’s 2022 Denis Roussel Award winning work, Mejorana, saying, “The first encounter with your work is one of wonder. The focused concept of your portfolio—immigration, identity, displacement and migrant deaths is profoundly important … even more so now in our current political climate. I appreciate your touching upon the loss of legacy and family sharing of meals / mother’s cooking and using the discarded corn husks as a substrate for your images. This is a beautiful marriage of ideas and materials establishing the connections within family during the sharing of meals. It would have been fun being your thesis advisor as this is a perfect reflection of your present and where you fit in the history of the medium.”
Read more about Elizabeth Pineda
Images, top to bottom, all © Elizabeth Z. Pineda: Detail from Reverencia: Arizona Migrant Death Mapping, Archive of the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner and Humane Borders, Archival pigment on Habotai Silk, 10 panels, 28 x 200”; Un Libro De Familia: A Rewriting of the Migrant Death Mapping Project, Handmade Corn Husk paper, 11 x 14” , Handmade clamshell box, Natural book cloth and Amate paper, 13.5 x 17”; Imagining Your Last Breath, Main Gallery Installation View; Still from: Ceremonia en Esta Tierra Sagrada, single channel video, 12'15".
Grant Street Studios epitomizes the idea of the Phoenix rising from the ashes. Renovating a former cotton factory in downtown Phoenix, ASU School of Art has created a community for its graduate studio artists, galleries for them to showcase work among Phoenix artists, and workspaces for them to experiment and flourish.
The expansive structure also showcases student artwork and outside artists in two galleries which are a part of the downtown Phoenix First and Third Fridays opening schedules. Step Gallery exhibits MFA thesis shows as well as exhibitions curated by students or ASU faculty. Northlight Gallery exhibits photographic works by both students and outside photographers through the strong network that curator Liz Allen has nurtured.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Grant Street Studios, 605 East Grant Street, Phoenix, United States
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