Present Tense

The Art of Memphis, 2001-Now

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Tiny Oufits series (actual size)

oil on paper, 3x5, 19 total

Tiny Outfits (Belted in Brown)

1

Tiny Outfits (Casual Day)

4

Tiny Outfits (Cream and Grey)

4

Tiny Outfits (Double Yellow)

4

Tiny Outfits (Drop Necklace)

4

Tiny Outfits (Flowers and Flower)

4

Tiny Outfits (Flowers and Loops)

4

Tiny Outfits (Green and Orange)

4

Tiny Outfits (Grey Jacket)

4

Tiny Outfits (Necklace from my Sister)

4

Tiny Outfits (Orange Beads)

4

Tiny Outfits (Orange Sweater)

4

Tiny Outfits (Pattern)

4

Tiny Outfits (Polka Dots)

4

Tiny Outfits (Profile with Earring)

4

Tiny Outfits (Scarf Necklace)

4

Tiny Outfits (Shirt Dress)

4

Tiny Outfits (Vertical Outfits)

        
2011
Artist Elizabeth Alley

Elizabeth Alley completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Memphis, and has been a fixture of the local scene ever since, exhibiting extensively and coordinating numerous public art projects for the UrbanArt Commission for over a decade until 2010. That same year she founded the Memphis Urban Sketchers, a group dedicated to drawing on location at sites throughout the city in order to tell the story of our surroundings through direct observation.

Alley's paintings typically focus on people, places, and moments that comprise life's memories. Of her Tiny Outfits series (2011), she states: "The accessories that I chose became important to the story of the painting because many of them are special to me in some way: made by my sister or a friend, gifts, or purchased while traveling." Through her exquisite attention to detail on such an intimate scale, she uses intricate compositional elements to draw the eye into a larger imaginary narrative.

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