Liz Ward

Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Liz Ward and the opening of The Grove, an exhibition of new works on paper by the celebrated San Antonio based artist. An opening reception for the artist will be held Saturday, May 20, from 5 - 8 pm...

With the acquisition of eight artworks by seven San Antonio artists, the San Antonio Museum of Art looks to renew its recent commitment to support living, local artists via its Initiative to Acquire Art by Contemporary San Antonio Artists. The artists in this round of acquisitions — Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Jenelle Esparza, Joe Harjo, Jon Lee, Ethel Shipton, Chris Sauter, and Liz Ward — were selected by a specially convened advisory committee that included local collectors, professors, artists, and arts leaders...

By all indications, 2020 is shaping up to be the year of the woman artist. In part to mark the 100th anniversary of American women achieving suffrage, arts institutions nationwide are focusing exclusively on women.

Outside Texas, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art is exploring “creative women who made their mark on American history,” while the National Museum of American History is celebrating 2020 as the “Year of the Woman.” In late 2019, the Baltimore Museum of Art announced that it will acquire only work by women artists during 2020, while the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming, has declared that the entire museum will show only women artists for 12 months...

Liz Ward's show "Watershed" features 14 intriguing mixed-media paintings that evoke mysterious, mythical aspects of the Mississippi River as it might have been seen in the early 19th century, or way before that...

On Thursday, March 20, Trinity professor and artist Liz Ward spoke about her collection featured in the Michael and Noemi Neidorff Art Gallery. Ward’s silverpoint drawings are included in the Trinity University Press book “Unchopping a Tree” by W.S. Merwin. When Ward was asked to illustrate for the book, she immediately agreed...

The Texas artist is captivated by the North and the histories captured in its ice cores, which provide the subject matter of her new watercolors and silverpoint drawings currently up at Moody Gallery. In light watercolors and silverpoint, Ward depicts the ice cores, which are like the rings in tree trunks, except they record climate conditions over thousands of years via accumulations of snow and ice...

In Liz Ward’s series of watercolors on paper, glacial forms slowly diffuse and vanish, “ice balloons” condense and reverberate in intensifying concentric rings of color and detailed silverpoint drawings capture the delicate striations of ice core layers that record, like tree rings, climatic change. Contemplative, sublime and melancholic, Ward’s series resonates with the natural processes they depict through a sensitive and meticulous making, begging the bigger questions: What do we lose when we accelerate the destruction of our natural world, in this case the melting glaciers? Can art help us empathize with the natural world and perhaps even help restore our sense of connection to it?...

Take a wintertime dip into these rippling watercolors and silverpoint drawings by artist Liz Ward. Her art is based on either plant-cell structures drawn in a delicate, concise, and rhythmically soothing way or on underground rivers, rendered in more ravishing watercolors. Ward began with the silverpoint drawings 13 years ago, then added watercolors 10 years ago. She latched onto a topographical image in a newspaper and began painting aquifers. About half the aquifer pieces are based on real maps, though eventually she began to let the warping of the large papers influence the composition of her works. This is coolness. She is able to listen to the paper, take direction from the materials themselves. In the richly layered and quietly provocative show at Women & Their Work, Minor Aquifers (Deep Blue) demonstrates her mapping technique coming together with the linear qualities of her silverpoint petri dishes. It is the most recently completed work in this vividly consistent progression of works...