Lizzy De Vita
Lizzy De Vita is an artist, writer, and educator who lives and works in Brooklyn. De Vita's work occupies a constellation of mediums, including performance, text, sound, drawing, installation, video and sculpture. Diverse in form, the work is unified by an underlying interest in viral moments: places where the boundaries between ourselves and others are blurred. De Vita earned her B.A. in Art History and English Literature from Barnard College and her M.F.A. in Sculpture at Yale.
Academic Research/Specialty Areas
- Collaborative practice
- Digital media
- Drawing
- Film/video/sound
- Installation art
- Interdisciplinary art
- Performance art
- Print media
- Sculpture
- Visual representation
Related Pages
- Frieze: On Human Dignity in Public Spaces
- AQNB: Lost for Words: On an Involuntary Exercise in Radical Stillness
Classes (Selected)
- ART 2103: First-Year Studio Research Workshop
Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)
- Support Structures 8th Floor Gallery, New York City (2020)
- Object Lessons Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, NY (2019)
- TALK BACK Flux Factory, New York City (2019)
Publications (Selected)
- De Vita, Lizzy. "On Human Dignity in Public Spaces." Frieze (2019) https://www.frieze.com/article/human-dignity-public-spaces
- De Vita, Lizzy. "Lost for Words: On an Involuntary Exercise in Radical Stillness." aqnb (2017) http://www.aqnb.com/2017/01/10/lost-for-words-on-an-involuntary-exercise-in-radical-stillness/
Selected Work
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Edging (2016/19) Film still. A strangely intimate, quietly violent moment where the boundaries and expectations between a client and a manicurist are blurred.
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Tourniquet three people (lovers), copper, plastic tubing, clothing, conversation, scissors, plastic.
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Lake (2019) glass, window, blinds, florescent lighting, tungsten lighting, mirroring.
