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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.
