(Brooklyn)
Elizabeth is Director of Contemporary Art at BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, where she curates exhibitions focusing on emerging and mid-career Brooklyn-affiliated artists.
A specialist in Mexican and Latino art, she has extensive experience as a curator, writer, and arts administrator. Elizabeth is author of Lola Alvarez Bravo (New York, Aperture Foundation), a monograph on the life and work of the pioneering modern photographer. The book accompanied an exhibition that traveled to the Smithsonian Institution and Notre Dame University, among other institutions. Elizabeth has curated numerous other exhibitions, on such subjects as recent Mexican photography, Dominican art, and Mexico/U.S. immigration. She has also written on and organized exhibitions on such artists as the Mexican modernist Maria Izquierdo, the Mexico-based photographer Mariana Yampolsky, and contemporary artists Gerardo Suter, Yolanda Andrade, German Herrera, and Salomon Huerta, among many others. She co-edited the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark publication Latin American Artists of the 20th Century, and has written for such journals as Art Nexus, Sculpture, Photography, Nueva Luz, and Art News. A devoted follower of Mexican traditional and contemporary culture, she has traveled to Oaxaca frequently.
