Elizabeth Leger

Quirky, silly and sad aspects of bodily existence provoke Elizabeth Leger's drawings. The drawings contain a junkyard of artifacts: layers composed of animals, architecture and instruments mingle with body parts and become unstuck in time. The pieces live in the idiosyncratic space where memory and form meet, a place where bodies both fragmented and whole bounce off one another and start talking.

Elizabeth Leger has shown her drawings in Canada and the United States in exhibitions juried by curators from the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco. She has received the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Museum Purchase Award and been awarded two artist residencies in New York.

Elizabeth's works are included the Auchenbach collection of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Iraq National Library, Baghdad and the image registries of Artists Space, New York and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.