Alice Painting

Eliza Be is a painter and multimedia visual artist. Her style is a contemporary expressive style that plays with the merge of simplicity and complexion, realism and abstract. Her subject matter reflects on virtues, the process of learning and overcoming, the self, kindness, feminism and joy. In addition to acrylic paint, she uses many different mediums, incorporating paper, fabrics, chalk, sewing and more into her work. She uses found materials and often creates fresh canvases out of recycled fabrics. Being inspired by the world around her, she has made pigments and textures from river clay, collaged children's drawings and inked paper towels from tattooing. Most of her work is abstracted portraiture, but she also paints abstract and abstracted landscapes. Eliza has displayed her work at various galleries and venues around the Eugene/Springfield, Portland and Blue River areas since 2013. In 2018, she painted a mural and created a mosaic in Chicxulub Pueblo, Yucatán México. Afterwards, in Beaverton Oregon, she carried out a hands-on multidisciplinary art project with children at the Club K after school program about the arts, culture and language of Yucatán that she learned from her time in the Pueblo. More recenlty she painted a mural with Teak and Capsel Rock in downtown Eugene between 10th and 11th and Willamette. She has been published in Murze and Bleed magazine and was a participant in the juried Mayor's Art Show in Eugene, Oregon in 2022. In the future, she looks forward to creating more murals, bodies of work and further expanding her creative process. She is currently based in Portland, Oregon. Eliza is currently applying to the Royal College of Art in London, UK. She is also passionate about the genocide in Gaza and is sharing information on how to help.