$14,000

Represented by Mitchell Hill Gallery

Liz Jaff is a visual artist who lives and works in New York City. Her work includes installations, objects and works on and of paper which use formalist structures, pattern and repetition to talk about impermanence and permanence, perceptions of time, and the role of memory in shaping experience. Poetry, storytelling, performance and diaspora culture, particularly Flamenco, are important influences. She received her BFA in painting from The Rhode Island School of Design and has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Large scale site specific installations are created using repeated components which serve as building blocks or units which respond to the unique architectural characteristics of a space. These are theatrical and immersive. The resulting environments have a dreamy escapist quality which suggest transformative portals or curtains, fairytales and treasure hunts. The “Cut Out” works are made with layered sheets of paper plotted with grids of circles which are cut and folded to create sculptural reliefs. These are ruminations or daydreams, the repetition of a single thought or sensation- a smell, a person, a feeling, a memory. They are a vehicle to count time and remember.