BIOGRAPHY
Raised in Boston, MA, Eliza Youngman is a recent graduate of Oberlin College. She began her artistic practice in Oberlin College’s reproducible media lab, where she has found a passion for print. Eliza primarily works in reproducible media, wood sculpture, and weaving. She is currently in Vilnius, Lithuania studying weaving with the support of the OCREECAS fellowship at Oberlin College.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is founded in satire, critical inquisition, and a generous dose of hater-ade. Using downright ridiculous for this modern age mediums such as intaglio and lithograph printmaking and woodworking with hand tools, I produce narrative satirical commentary on humanity’s shortcomings. I am an attack artist, ranging from critiques of myself to critiques of power structures including religion, white feminism, government, and American tourism.
The art I make is certainly conspicuous- whether through scale and absurdity in woodworking or through edition size and color in printmaking. Conversely, the stories that these loud art objects tell masquerade as inconsequential and frivolous through use of humor, self-deprecation, and nasty, bright colors. I am working to reclaim the too-much aspects of capitalism and put my own un-ignorable garbage into the abyss. Attacking the subliminal messaging I receive, I give back narratives that attack existing power structures and my role within them.
