eliza myrie

(she/her)

2011 - 2012 AIR
(Logan Center Gallery)

elizamyrie.com
Instagram: @eebbeetthh

myrie received her MFA from Northwestern University and was a participant at The Skowhegan School and The Whitney Independent Study Program. myrie is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a co-founder of The Black Artists Retreat [B.A.R.]. Exhibitions include Arts Club Chicago; Gallery 400; Vox Populi; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; New Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2020, she was an Artadia awardee.

myrie’s work explores site and labor through generational inheritance, gender, and authorship. As a sculptor and printmaker, dimension, volume, and examination of how representation and subjectivity are lost/gained via physical and conceptual processes are central to her work.

All that Light: Works Detail

11.
E.T.

12.
Elliot

13.
E.T. black

eliza myrie
2022
screenprint on BFK Rives

Logan Center Exhibitions

Curator’s Notes

This triptych by eliza myrie prompts us to consider the ways in which ET operates simultaneously as extraterrestrial and as a symbol of black displacement and ascension to new frontiers.

Additional Reading:

Newfound interviews eliza myrie