| ELIZABETH WITHSTANDLEY |
Born in 1971, photographer and filmmaker Elizabeth Withstandley earned a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute, New York, and in 1998 received her M.F.A. from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She has exhibited her work at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, and at the Meyerhoff Gallery at the Maryland Institute of the Arts in Baltimore. In 1998, along with the artists COOPER and Westen Charles, Withstandley founded Locust Projects, a non-profit exhibition space for emerging artists and alternative art forms in the Wynnwood district of Miami. Withstandley is now pursuing a filmmaking career in Los Angeles.
Conceived cinematically, Withstandley’s photographic series document dramatic narratives which she develops in her mind from the point of view of an imagined protagonist. Inspired by films, television dramas, talk shows, and other forms of popular entertainment, Withstandley’s work satirically comments on the clichés, stereotypes, and pastimes of American culture.
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