Marrow Gallery presents La Vie en Rose, an exhibition of new works from Los Angeles based-artist, Elizabeth Robb. This is the artist’s third solo show with the gallery and presents a selection of new work made during her 2021 Savannah College of Art and Design Alumni Artist Residency in Lacoste, France. The current body of work is a response to the place and the resources it allows. Fields of lavender, ancient stone and grazing livestock all influence the texture, size and feel of the work. There is a romanticism here that comes from being somewhere new, somewhere different, after being stuck in a place so familiar for so long.

In a statement on the current body of work, Robb writes: “I work sculpturally to capture a moment in time using active processes that become mediations: weaving, wrapping, knotting, dyeing; building structures that are then reconfigured… The repetition of these acts connects my subconscious mind and body, allowing me to connect on a deeper level. The process becomes a cathartic act of deep meditation.

My art practice is heavily influenced by place. All of the works have been sketched, sourced, and entirely created based on my response to place and time living and working in Lacoste, Provence. The scale, techniques, and methods are how I typically work, but overall the feel is very much encapsulated from my here and now.

La Vie en Rose has floated through my everyday life for years- it’s slowly become a mantra of sorts. Featuring the local colors and materials of Provence, I’m working with natural dyes, pigments, and yarns to create these larger than life sculptural woven and wrapped works.”

About the Artist

Liz Robb is currently the Savannah College of Art and Designs Alumni Artist in Residence in Lacoste, France. Robb’s recent exhibitions include, A Beautiful Mess: Weavers And Knotters Of The Vanguard at the Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, Houston Museum of Contemporary Craft, Eastern Michigan University Art Gallery, and the International Textile Art Biennial in Belgium. She has done residencies in Oaxaca, Mexico, Iceland, Lacoste, France and Hudson, New York. Her work is in the public collections of Twitter, Marriott Hotel Group and the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has her BFA from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from SCAD. This is her third solo exhibition at Marrow Gallery.