Contributing Artists
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Elizabeth (Liz) T. Vazquez is an artist, writer and filmmaker from Los Angeles. They received their BA in Film Production at the Arts University Bournemouth (U.K.) after studying cultural anthropology and philosophy at Moorpark College. While working at various art institutions and exhibiting work in Los Angeles, they nourished their academic curiosity at the Philosophical Research Society. There, began to organize artist-led events before continuing their studies at the American Film Institute Conservatory where they received an MFA in Screenwriting.
Liz's work extends from video art to drawing, assemblage, photography and narrative filmmaking. Their projects often incorporate off-beat relationships between text and image while exploring "otherness.” They believe in play and playfulness as radical acts towards critiquing and ultimately dismantling stifling social constructions rooted in various forms of violence. etvazquez.com // @stripmalldreams |
Projects
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A two-part art, performance and literary salon featuring works by Yunuen Rhi, Elizabeth T. Vazquez, Silvi Naçi, Vinhay Keo, Zen Cohen, Sterling Hedges, Ana Estela, and a discussion with Kandis Williams in conjunction with CASSANDRA Press. Over the course of two evenings, artists Kandis Williams, Yunuen Rhi and Elizabeth T. Vazquez presented a salon of creative discourse from institutionally othered perspectives using art, film, writing, and performance to reframe quests for knowledge through Black, Brown, Immigrant, and Queer narratives.
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ENGAGE <> EXCHANGE A MONTHLY READING & DISCUSSION GROUP 2021 - 2022
A monthly reading and discussion group intended to scrape the surface of various theory-based texts.
Books available for purchase at PRS Bookstore
A monthly reading and discussion group intended to scrape the surface of various theory-based texts.
Books available for purchase at PRS Bookstore
Solo Exhibition
mano de dios: the nonsense continues by Elizabeth T. Vazquez
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 11, 2022 3:00-7:00pm
Music Performance by Franz Murder, 6:00pm, Free and Open to the Public
On View: June 11, 2022 - Aug 6, 2022
Regular Exhibit Hours: Fridays 12:00-6:00pm, and by appointment (info@prs.org)
PRS is pleased to present the first solo exhibit of Elizabeth T. Vazquez (ETV), mano de dios: the nonsense continues, a selection of work featuring drawings, paintings, sculptures, and videos. Exploring notions of historical and contemporaneous toxicity in body, mind, and spirit through their choice of materials and imagery, ETV stumbles into a fleshy unraveling of the absurdities, profanities, complexities, and profundities that shape our paradoxical existences.
At times grotesque, at times humorous (usually both simultaneously), mano de dios: the nonsense continues serves as a mercurial entity—a grimacing trickster—that guides us into a strange, yet familiar underworld adorned by warped objects, precarious religiosity, and broken-down technologies. The trickster deity reminds the viewer that processes of purification, transmutation, and catharsis begin and end with a destruction of what has been. As the artist states, “Here, destruction imitates creation and creation is destructive. It's all apart, all a part.”
"In an age characterized by perpetual hyper-consumption, pollution, and collapse, poison is synonymous with preservation—delicious, manufactured preservatives. We are filled with plastic, and we would love some more please! Meanwhile, we inhabit the uninhabitable as we dumb ourselves down to play with sharp objects. So, the nonsense continues.” – ETV
mano de dios engages this age of plastic with its own peculiar malleability, connecting a broad range of contemporary anxieties, socio-political confusions, and personal unravelings between waivering hopelessness and awakening curiosity.
Elizabeth (Liz) T. Vazquez is a first-generation Mexican-American artist, writer, and filmmaker from Los Angeles. After briefly studying anthropology and philosophy at Moorpark College, they received their BA in Film Production at the Arts University of Bournemouth in the UK. They began regularly attending lectures at the Philosophical Research Society in 2016 and in 2021 was made an artist-in-residence. They've continued their education at the American Film Institute Conservatory as a Screenwriting Fellow. For more info, visit: etvazquez.com // @stripmalldreams
Music Performance by Franz Murder, 6:00pm, Free and Open to the Public
On View: June 11, 2022 - Aug 6, 2022
Regular Exhibit Hours: Fridays 12:00-6:00pm, and by appointment (info@prs.org)
PRS is pleased to present the first solo exhibit of Elizabeth T. Vazquez (ETV), mano de dios: the nonsense continues, a selection of work featuring drawings, paintings, sculptures, and videos. Exploring notions of historical and contemporaneous toxicity in body, mind, and spirit through their choice of materials and imagery, ETV stumbles into a fleshy unraveling of the absurdities, profanities, complexities, and profundities that shape our paradoxical existences.
At times grotesque, at times humorous (usually both simultaneously), mano de dios: the nonsense continues serves as a mercurial entity—a grimacing trickster—that guides us into a strange, yet familiar underworld adorned by warped objects, precarious religiosity, and broken-down technologies. The trickster deity reminds the viewer that processes of purification, transmutation, and catharsis begin and end with a destruction of what has been. As the artist states, “Here, destruction imitates creation and creation is destructive. It's all apart, all a part.”
"In an age characterized by perpetual hyper-consumption, pollution, and collapse, poison is synonymous with preservation—delicious, manufactured preservatives. We are filled with plastic, and we would love some more please! Meanwhile, we inhabit the uninhabitable as we dumb ourselves down to play with sharp objects. So, the nonsense continues.” – ETV
mano de dios engages this age of plastic with its own peculiar malleability, connecting a broad range of contemporary anxieties, socio-political confusions, and personal unravelings between waivering hopelessness and awakening curiosity.
Elizabeth (Liz) T. Vazquez is a first-generation Mexican-American artist, writer, and filmmaker from Los Angeles. After briefly studying anthropology and philosophy at Moorpark College, they received their BA in Film Production at the Arts University of Bournemouth in the UK. They began regularly attending lectures at the Philosophical Research Society in 2016 and in 2021 was made an artist-in-residence. They've continued their education at the American Film Institute Conservatory as a Screenwriting Fellow. For more info, visit: etvazquez.com // @stripmalldreams
