BIO: LIZA LEE (Principal & Artist)
Originally from Quebec City, Canada, with an extended family in the San Francisco, US, Liza Lee is an East Vancouver resident in her 40s. She lived in Kitsilano, Vancouver in her 20s after obtaining a BA in literature from UBC. She moved to Mount Pleasant, Vancouver in her 30s to focus on her art practice as well as producing arts events through Artistrun Collective, co-founded in 2000 with Belfast-born public artist, Dr. Lycia Trouton of “Linen Memorial”, to commemorate the “Troubles” sectarian violence of Belfast (1967 to 2000).
With her sharp skills in social media, Liza has been acknowledged by well-known Vancouver gallery dealer Diane Farris as a Vancouver pioneer of social networking in the arts (“Twitter/Art+Social Media” exhibition 2010). Her art community is the Pan Pacific Rim and world wide web! With her background in finance, her mission is to demonstrate how art provides financial returns beyond its original creations. Her vision as co-founder of Artistrun Collective is to facilitate art, as a means to enable deep and lasting social change. The latest example is found in “Ephemeral Nature of Art Spaces”. Read More…
2013 SEEDSTOCK VIRTUAL ART SHOW – CIRCLE THEME (12″ x 12″ Series)
Liza’s 2013 art project is the Seedstock Virtual Art Show to celebrate the launch of Vancouver’s Seedstock Community Currency. Seedstock helps local businesses, farmers, artists, health practitioners and freelancers thrive by helping create a strong local economy with money that works for the community. And in doing so, it helps local businesses help non-profits by making donations of business-backed Seedstock. Read More…
2010 “TWITTER/ART+SOCIAL MEDIA” – CRAFTIVISM ART (16″ x 16″ Series)
Liza Lee references the “Craftivism Art” movement as her artwork is centered around ideas of subversive structures and networks, which engage various social issues about communities-of-care and intimacy versus immediate publicity: including anti-consumerism, slow time, geo-social networking, environmentalism and sustainability. Read More…
2008 “MOSAIC I” and “MOSAIC II” – LUXURY ART TILES (8″ x 8″ Series)
“Mosaic Butterfly I and II” has been in the process of creation since 2005. Each one of the panels (to make up a monumental final image of nine) is an 8” x 8” square canvases and when pieced together, they become a larger square of 24” x 24”. Many of these panels have snow themes to reflect the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. Vancouver is like a mosaic, with a variety of cultures connected—some more randomly, while others are pieced together with intent. Read More…
PRECIOUS SQUARES OF JOY & LIGHT – DR. LYCIA TROUTON (Co-Founder, Artistrun Collective)
Buy one for luxury and colour to balance the Feng Shui in your peaceful and domestic environment. Every little square fits neatly, side-by-side together, creating an individualized yet unified greater whole. The squares can be personalized by you, the buyer, and individualized like puzzle pieces, accordingly for your apartment or condo layout. Or, simply change with the seasons, by keeping on top of Liza’s new colour arrangements…as she continues to paint more Feng Shui art squares that can suit both small and large interiors. Read More…
Recent paintings inspired by chalk art and Tibetan sand paintings, also covered in article below.
CHALK ART – TARA WOHLBERG (Globe & Mail)
Step on a crack, break your mother’s back? You could call it sidewalk superstition, but Calvin Smith has his digits doubly crossed for a dry B.C. Day – as in weather. He’s the founder and director of the 2nd Annual Granville Island Chalk Art Competition, an enviro-friendly event that fosters a sense of community like hopscotch never could. Read More…