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Elizabeth Lide creates meditative drawings, objects, and installations that explore the contradictions in accumulation and the making of multiples, the distillation of surroundings into shapes and grids as repositories for color and mood, and the placement of ordinary objects in new contexts.

Her most recent project Oddments of the Lean State pulled together drawings and objects from 18 installations made over the past 45 years. She is attracted to found objects and materials, mainly from her family, examining their history and possible meanings when out of original contexts.