Eliza Be

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...

AS, Portland Community College 2023

Solo exhibitions:
2024 Equilibirum, Portland, OR
Evolution Hair Design, Portland, OR
Café Soriah, Eugene, OR
2023 Wildling Collaborative Arts, Eugene, OR
Evolution Hair Design, Portland, OR
2022 Mel's Frameshop & Gallery, Portland, OR
Evolution Hair Design, Portland, OR
Red e Café Gallery, Portland, OR
2021 Evolution Hair Design, Portland, OR
Red e Café Gallery, Portland, OR
2020 Café Gertrude, Portland, OR
2019 Seven Virtues Coffee Roasters, Portland, OR
Island Park Art Gallery, Springfield, OR
2018- present Common Bond Yoga Studio, Springfield, OR
2018 Farwest Fermentation, Eugene, OR
2017-2018 16 Tons Café, Eugene, OR
2017 Claim 52 Brewing, Springfield, OR
Oregon Wine Lab, Eugene, OR
Willamette Valley Cancer Institute and Research Center, Springfield, OR
Pizza Research Institute, Springfield, OR
2016 Hi-Fi Music Hall, Eugene, OR

Group exhibitions:
2025 Mel'...