Elizabeth M. Webb

Charlottesville, VA

September 2-30, 2021

Sponsored by Carlo and Micòl Schejola Foundation

ARTIST STATEMENT

“My work is invested in the ways we position ourselves in relation to others, the ways we are positioned by others, and how these different positions are made visible (or invisible). I am drawn to Stuart Hall’s analysis of how we might conceive of identity in terms of “routes” rather than “roots.” Where “roots” statically connect identity to origin, “routes” envision identity as the continuous process of coming to be. My own family history of migration, racial passing, and existing on both sides of the “color line” serves as an entry point in my work for exploring larger, systemic constructs and the renegotiation of their borders.”

BIO

Elizabeth M. Webb is an artist and filmmaker originally from Charlottesville, VA. Her work is invested in issues surrounding race and identity, often using the lens of her own family history of migration and racial passing to explore larger, systemic constructs and the renegotiation of their borders. She has screened and exhibited in the U.S., United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Ecuador, Singapore, Switzerland, Mexico, Spain, Norway, Austria and Germany and was a recipient of the inaugural Allan Sekula Social Documentary Award in 2014. Elizabeth holds a dual MFA in Film/Video and Photography/Media from California Institute of the Arts and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program in Studio Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. She was Fall 2019 Visiting Faculty in Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. Since 2015 she has been the Creative Producer for Arts in a Changing America and in 2020 worked on the launch of the Cultural New Deal for Cultural and Racial Justice. She is currently co-editing an anthology with Roberta Uno and Daniela Alvarez entitled FUTURE/PRESENT: Culture in a Changing America solicited by Duke University Press.

ARTIST LINKS

Website: www.elizabethmwebb.com

Instagram: @elizabeth.m.webb