Bio

Liz Nayadley grew up in Marietta, GA. After graduating from The Atlanta College of Art with a B.F.A she moved to NYC and lived in Brooklyn for close to 5 years. She has shown in Atlanta, NYC, Los Angeles, Denver and Scotland. Two books have been published with her work featured on the cover.

This body of work began as a collaborative effort between Liz Nayadley and another artist named Jeremy Spears. They worked under the name of Spears/Nayadley and began collaborating shortly after they met in college. Liz continues with this work dealing with memories of childhood and coming of age. The medium of photography is used only as a starting point to re-shoot and re-crop her family snapshots of growing up in the South. By choosing certain areas of an image she is repositioning herself through the photograph into it's emotional content. Placing emphasis on what she considers to be the most significant aspects. After compiling hundreds of images she begins the second process of placing images next to each other to form narratives and create dynamic shapes by interconnecting lines that join image to image. Her earlier installations of re-photographed, heavily lacquered images sometimes employed up to 30 twenty by thirty-inch prints mounted on hand-made wooden panels. She has since scaled down the number of panels per piece but continues to use the same process of varnishing each image and staining the wood panels. When photographing she pays close attention to the details of the surface of the images and often show scratches, pen marks and tears from their neglect over the years. As a result of this presentation the images become precious objects that closely resemble paintings. The placement of the images relies upon how each image connects to one another aesthetically as well as conceptually. This is where the work transforms from personal into something universal.

Please visit this site for a full catalog of images available for publication:

http://www.seekprojects.com/catalog/