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Elizabeth earned her MA in Studio Arts from The Florence Academy of Art in Italy, after completing a BFA in Painting at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Her practice centers on portraiture and figurative works, with exhibitions including the Springville Museum of Art, the 35th Annual Crèche Exhibit in Palo Alto, and Brigham Young University, among others. In 2021, the Utah Division of Arts & Museums acquired her work for the State of Utah’s permanent art collection.
Within this formal structure, she cultivates an opposing but essential force—intuition, vulnerability, and lived experience. She approaches painting as a meeting point between order and passion, where technical precision provides the scaffolding and emotional life provides the fire.
Elizabeth views her life itself as an artistic act of transformation. Rather than narrating suffering, she seeks its transmutation—turning rupture, grief, and cultural inheritance into images of quiet strength and tenderness. As a Mexican woman working within and beyond classical traditions, she explores the body as a vessel capable of holding contradiction, resilience, and grace. Her paintings invite a contemplative dialogue, where sorrow and beauty coexist and compassion becomes an act of seeing.
“My goal is to inspire feelings of compassion and kindness toward ourselves and others. I see my art as a dialogue between the unconscious and the customary mind, embodied in both new spaces and familiar places. I hope my paintings speak of the ordinary days from a poetic and sacred perspective—one that emanates from a place where love and irony are intimately entwined and at peace.”
Exhibitions
2025 Thesis Exhibition, The Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
2023 This is How the World Ends, BYU, Provo, UT
2023 The Art of Belonging, UVUMOA, Orem,UT
2023 Tiny Art Show, Museum Frida Kahlo, CDMX
2022 35th Annual Christmas Creche, Palo Alto, CA
2022 98th Annual Utah Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, UT
2022 Doorways to Divinity, Writ & Vision, Provo, UT
2022 Art at the Park, Salt Lake City, UT
2022 BIPOC Women of Utah Art Show, JKR Gallery, Provo, UT
2021 Nepantla, Writ & Vision, Provo, UT
2020 The Weight we Carry, Writ & Vision, Provo, UT
2020 A Place to Belong, Writ & Vision, Provo,UT
2019 Self: Explorations of Identify, Springville Museum of Art, UT
2018 Places within Me, Gallery Stroll, SLC, UT
2018 Truths and Consequences: Art Access Gallery, SLC, UT
2017 Archetypes and Symbols, Springville Museum of Art, UT
2013 Nuestra Herencia, Provo Library, Provo, UT
2011 Big Eyed Women, Art Access gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2009 85th Annual Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, UT
2008 Personal Epiphanies, Harris Fine Arts Center BYU, Provo,UT
2007 83rd Annual Utah Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, UT
Publications
Utah Valley Magazine, Dec 2020
Utah Explorer’s Guide Magazine, July 2020
Exponent II magazine, Summer 2018
Exponent II magazine, vol 36, Summer 2016
Exponent II magazine, Cover, vol 34, Spring 2015
Collections
2021 Alice Merrill Horne Art Collection, Utah Division of Art Museums