Using material, color, and form, Liz creates felted and mixed media works to raise questions of empathy and focus through the tactility, vibrancy, and shape of her natural fiber. She received her M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and B.F.A. from the University of Kentucky. In 2018, Moore was published in New American Paintings Issue #136, representing 1 of 40 emerging artists in the South, as well as featured in ArtMaze Magazine, London, U.K. She was the recipient of the Arthur Oswald Scholarship and Sam Fox School Travel Grant in 2019 to travel to Germany and Mexico researching natural fiber dye techniques and contemporary color theory. In 2020 she participated in the St. Louis Textiles Fiber Biennial. Her works have recently been shown at the Kemper Art Museum, Miami University in Oxford, Take It Easy ATL, Intersect Chicago (SOFA) in Chicago with re.riddle gallery, and the World of Co Artist Residency in Sofia, Bulgaria.
As an artist, I'm a process enthusiast. Starting out in painting and photolithography printmaking, I've brought methods of gesture making to the substrate of felt. I think of felts as extraordinary holding places, which can hold heavy items and alternatively be as light as air. I explore rearranging motifs from my grandmothers collections of linens and objects they kept around the house, and I push them to become otherworldly forms on my felts. From physical objects such as costume jewelry to breaking the confines of the woven grid, everything is up on the table to be manipulated. Through their deformation, I'm hoping to bring reflections of women's labor into a new light, while also pushing the capacity of felt as a medium.