Elizabeth Lide creates meditative drawings, objects, and installations that explore the contradictions in accumulation and the making of multiples, the distillation of surroundings into shapes and grids as repositories for color and mood, and the placement of ordinary objects in new contexts. She has been awarded residences at Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France; MASS MoCA inNorth Adams, MA; MacDowell in Peterborough, NH; Virginia Center for the CreativeArts (VCCA); Hambidgein Rabun Gap, GA; Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, Ireland; and with University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art in Cortona, Italy.She was the recipient of a Working Artist Project Fellowship from the Museum ofContemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), selected by Saisha M. Grayson, AssistantCurator at the Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Her solo exhibitions have included Whitespace in Atlanta, MOCA GA, AtlantaContemporary, Sandler Hudson Gallery, The Arts Festival of Atlanta, La Mama in New York City, SECCA in NC, AtlantaArt Workers’ Coalition, Winthrop University in SC,The Upstairs in Tryon, Atlanta Women’s Art Collective, Baldwin-Wallace College inKY, and Window-on-Gaines in Tallahassee, Florida. Her work has been shown in 90+ group exhibitions including The Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC; Athens Institute ofContemporary Art in Athens, Georgia; Whitespace Gallery; MOCA GA; The HighMuseum of Art; The Swan Coach House; Carlos Museum at Emory University; A.I.R.Gallery in New York City; Atlanta College of Art; University of Maryland; Eyedrum; Carlsberg Glytotek Museum in Copenhagen; The Ernest G. Welch School of Art andDesign Gallery at Georgia State University; The Upstairs in Tryon, North Carolina; Brenau College; and The Chautauqua Exhibition of American Art in Chautauqua, New York. Her artists’ books have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art, The University of Damascus, The University of North Carolina, Duke University, Emory University,School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Virginia Commonwealth University, University ofIowa, The ACA Library at SCAD, Ruth and Marvin Sackner Collection, North CarolinaWriters’ Network, and Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Her drawings are in collections at The High Museum of Art, MOCA GA, the Microsoft Corporation, and in numerous private collections