Searching for the Miraculous Part 2 - Elizabeth Withstandley
Searching for the Miraculous Part 2 - Elizabeth Withstandley
There are 21 illustrations, a photograph, and a video still in this 52 pages book which consists of maps and images that relate to each day.
This artist’s book provides insight into the process of creating the final work. The book shows the chronology of the days using excerpts of our daily communication along with images providing some visual insight into the work.
Size a 5"x 7" | 12,7 x 17,78 cm
ISBN: 978-1-7322978-1-4
Softcover Signed and Numbered by the artist Elizabeth Withstandley.
LIMITED EDITION of 100 BOOKS.
Elizabeth Withstandley
“Searching for the Miraculous (Part 2: The Journey) is a limited edition artist book based on my 10 day journey across the Atlantic Ocean in July 2019. While I was on the boat I worked with the musician Jordan Lee from the band Mutual Benefit who was on the other side of the Atlantic in Cushendall, Northern Ireland. We communicated our experiences daily through email, creating a connected journey that served as the basis for the project.”
About the Artist
Elizabeth Withstandley is from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, she lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She is one of the co-founders of Locust Projects, a not-for-profit art exhibition space in Miami, FL.
Her exhibitions include AC Institute NY, NY, VisArts Rockville, MD, Exgirlfriend, Berlin, Germany, Govan Project Space, Glasgow, Scotland, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY. She is a 2020 AIREE fellow at the Everglades National Park in Florida in October 2020.
Select past exhibitions include Carnation Contemporary, Portland, Oregon, SIM gallery Reykjavik Iceland, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, Winslow Garage, Los Angeles, CA, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, The Moore Space, Miami, Fredric Snitzer, Miami, The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, The Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios, Israel, The Bass Museum, Miami, Cultural Center, Sao Paolo Brazil. Her work has been featured in Murze Magazine, SOLO, Art Papers, The Miami Herald, and The New Times.
Artist Statement:
Artifacts, individuality, and music are all central themes in my work. The projects take on the form of artifacts by their simplification and classification, frequently like relics from the natural history museum. The work questions individuality while presenting a portrait of a person, a group of people, or a specific culture. My work is rooted in conceptual art, taking the form of photographic series, film, video, and installations that explore contemporary culture through a narrative. What is it like to be an individual? How does the importance of individuality affect our daily life? Are there aspects within each person that makes them distinctly unique? Or are we all the same? I have been focusing on these thematic elements in the recent projects.
The participants play a significant role in the trajectory of each of my projects. Recently, the narratives moved further from fiction into the realm of non-fiction with the projects. “You Can Not Be Replaced,” “The Real Brian Wilson,” “The Symphony of Names: No Man Is an Island,” “Searching for the Miraculous (Part 1: One Day in Death Valley)” and “A Brief History of Happiness.”
