Elizabeth Keithline’s work focuses on human self-extension, concerning systems of all kinds – architecture, technology, cars, the modern built environment, as well as the natural world – in an effort to comment on and grapple with modern life. In 1996, Keithline invented a technique called Lost Box, involving weaving wire around large objects and then burning or pulling it off, creating a wire memory. Since 2019, she has cast shadows through the wire and traced and painted them. Keithline has shown widely in the United States including solo shows at the Peabody Essex Museum, the Danforth Museum, the Newport Art Museum, the Waiting Room in New Orleans, Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio, ArtPrize Grand Rapids, Real Art Ways in Hartford, Umass Amherst, Umass Dartmouth and Wheaton College. Doing business as Wheel Arts Administration, she has curated exhibitions for Mark Miller Gallery, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Boxo Projects NY, Mobius Boston and Wheaton College, among others. She has written for Sculpture Magazine, Public Art Review, Art New England and the Americans For the Arts blog.