In my artistic practice, I investigate the relationship between objects using silhouette, color, line, and surface through interlocking, paired, and interconnected structures. My slab-built ceramic constructions are diptychs, portraits, and landscapes that tell visual stories. Despite their reference to traditional vessels, I pursue these ceramic works as art without regard to function.
Elizabeth Burke-Dain (b.1961, Ridgewood, New Jersey) is an Oak Park-based artist and communications professional. She has enlivened the brands of some of Chicago’s most storied cultural institutions with innovative marketing, creative direction, and on-mission messaging. In the early 90s, she co-founded the Around the Coyote arts festival, a city-wide art event that helped transform the Wicker Park/Bucktown neighborhood into a national model for the creative economy.
