Liz Jaff
Liz Jaff, August 1 – September 30, 2023
Liz Jaff is a native of New York City and received her BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Montserrat College of Art, The Art Complex Center of Tokyo, Japan, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY, the Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY and Drawing Rooms in Jersey City, NJ. Liz is a 2023 recipient of the Art Laguna Prize in Venice, Italy. She maintains her studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
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Learn More, Collect Smarter!, January 2023
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Learn More About Our Artists..., January 2021
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The Light In Winter, December 2020
A winter selection of new work from gallery artists.
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Collective Isolation, May 2020
Collective Isolation a group exhibition of gallery artists.
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Beauty and the Banal, March 2020
A winter group grouping of four gallery artists: Richard Garrison, Liz Jaff, Noah Loesberg and Duane Zaloudek.
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Studio Visits: August 2019 - February 2020, March 2020
Studio Visits: August 2019 - February 2020
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Liz Jaff, February 2020
In January 2020 we visited New York City artist Liz Jaff in her Brooklyn studio and discussed her biography, the origins of her work and where new ideas might be taking her studio practice.
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A Big Small Show, November 2019
A collection of alluring and beautiful small artwork by gallery artists! Each week of November and December we will highlight a different small work from each of our artists! Stay tuned!
Liz Jaff: Wallflower, February 24 – April 9, 2017
Liz Jaff’s Wallflower, her third exhibition with the gallery, explores reflections on longing, vulnerability, inner strength and the changing nature of relationships. Consisting of large-scale ink on paper drawings and a time-based installation of ink and dissolving paper, the two bodies of work offer different perceptions of time passed and passing, highlighting the ephemerality of experience and the intangible nature of loss. They ask the viewer to experience time by capturing a particular moment or watching it undo itself in the present.
Bits and Pieces: Pauline Galiana, Liz Jaff and Jim Osman, June 3 – July 31, 2016
Bits and Pieces features three artists, Pauline Galiana, Liz Jaff and Jim Osman, whose artwork consists of small parts composed together to create a larger whole. Through the repetition of similar units or the construction of site-specific elements Bits and Pieces is an exploration of form, space and materials.
Overboard: Liz Jaff, September 5 – October 12, 2014
Inspired by the Elizabeth Bishop poem Casabianca, Overboard employs the minimal, abstract geometry artist Liz Jaff has developed over the last 15 years to explore ideas of love, commitment and sacrifice, memory of time and space. For this exhibition, composed of two large-scale works, titled Mark Twain and The Good Boy, Jaff obsessively cuts, folds and sews paper and string with exacting consistency. Her compulsion to make sense of time and space through repetition, shape and form are reflected in the visual metaphors of Bishop’s poem.
Liz Jaff, October 20 – November 20, 2011
Liz Jaff creates installations and objects which reflect her personal impression of space and memory. She explores the structural attributes and aesthetic qualities intrinsic to paper that she cuts and folds into highly formal compositions in both objects and large-scale installations. Her ink drawings continue these investigations by diagramming folds using ink soaked cloth to make patterns on paper. This exhibition will feature new cut and folded paper pieces and ink on paper drawings produced at the artist’s studios in Greenwich Village and Southampton, NY.
