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Facebook: Liz Lescault Sculptor
“Playing With Shadows” Solo Exhibition
McLean Project for the Arts Solo-Exhibition (January-Februay 2025)
"SO EPHEMERAL THAT THEY RENDER ABSENCE AS TANGIBLE as presence, Liz Lescault’s recent sculptures are made primarily of transparent extruded filament. The 27 wall-mounted pieces in “Playing with Shadows”, evoke nests, flowers, spider-webs, and microscopic organisms. As the show’s title indicates, the filmy shadows cast by the sculptures tendrils are integral as those clear plastic wisps themselves."
by Marc Jenkins from DisCerning Eye (Substack)
Artist Statement:
My work draws it's inspiration from nature. I am fascinated by the organic world and all its permutations. My sculpture alludes to nature but is imagined and not representational.
My sculpture is biomorphic, combining elements from all forms and stages of life, active and inert, living and dead and can be simultaneously sensual, scientific and contemplative.
My current work is primarily constructed with extruded filament, combined with other media. The fine filaments create shadows that become part of the piece, sometimes indistinguishable from it. Remnants and relics such as shadows, fossils and residues are a part of an object's story and can be used in discovery. Scientists use remnants to uncover the nature of objects that may no longer exist in their original form. Remnants can also explain more about the existing nature of and object.
Education
1995-1997 Studied watercolor at WICE, an international educational and cultural association in Paris, France
1982-1986 Studied African pottery techniques in Botswana and Lesotho (Southern Africa).
1972-1974 M.Ed., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, British Techniques of Open Education, Thesis: Integrating Arts into the Curriculum
1967-1971 B.S., Psychology, Drew University, Madison, NJ
Affiliations
2016-Present Otis Street Arts Project, Studio and Art Incubator, Mt. Rainier, MD
2024 Santangelo Gallery, Thomas, West Virginia
2006-Present McBride Gallery, Exhibitor, Annapolis, MD
2004-2015 Waverly Street Gallery, Exhibiting Member, Bethesda, MD
2010-2011 City Gallery, Exhibiting Member, DC
2006-2008 Red Dirt Studio and Seminar, Exhibiting Member, Mt. Rainier, MD
1987-2013 Scope Gallery, Juried Exhibiting Member, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
1989-2005 Grey House Potters, Juried Exhibiting Member, Arlington, VA
Awards and Honoraria
2021 Honorarium, juror for Scope Gallery member exhibition, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
2021 Honorarium, Phillips Collection, online arts tutorial series, Washington DC
2021 Honorarium, featured artist / window display, Brentwood Arts Exhchange, Brentwood, MD
2018 Honorarium and Solo Exhibition, "Biologique", curator by Craig Schaffer, Cresent Towers, Tysons, VA
2017 Colloquia, selected by the Art Department at Bishop McNamara to give a retrospective presentation,
Forestville, MD
2013 Maryland State Individual Artist’s Award
2012 Daily Campello Art News, selected for best organic sculpture, Artomatic Sterling Va.
2008 Daily Campello Art News, Selected Best of the Bethesda Art Walk Exhibitions, MD / Solo Exhibition, "Beauty and the Beast”
2005 Honorarium, Maryland National Parks and Planning Commission, work displayed at Maryland House of Delegates, Annapolis, MD
2001 Selected by the Torpedo Factory Art Center to exhibit at Washington National Airport, Arlington, VA
Solo Exhibitions, Juried Exhibitions and Invitations
2025 "Playing with Shadows", Solo Exhibition, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean VA
2024 "reGenerate" Maryland Art Place with Lumina Solar, Baltimore, MD
2024 "Wall Mountables" DC Arts Center, Washington DC
2024 "Sculpture Now 2024" McClean Project for the Arts, McClean, VA
sponsered by Washington Sculptors Group
2023 “3D”, group sculpture exhibition, Reston Art Gallery and Studio, Reston VA.
2023 “Rending…Rendering”, group exhibition, Popcorn Gallery, Glen Echo, MD
2023 “Unfettered”, featuring the work of artists, Liz Lescault and Lisa Rosenstein,
curated by John Paradiso, Portico Gallery, Brentwood, MD
2022 “Self”, multimedia exploration of self identity, pop-up venue in Brentwood MD.
2022 "New Work by Sculptor Liz Lescault", Dumbarton Concerts Gallery,
Dumbarton Arts and Education, Washington DC
2022 "Sculpture Now 2022", Harmony Hall Arts Center, juror: Fitsum Shebeshe, Fort Washington, MD
2022. “Fresh”, an exhibition of Otis Street Arts Project studio artists, Mt. Ranier, MD
2022 “Courage Unmasked III”, Art Auction Gala / Help for Head and Neck Cancer, The Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington DC
2022 “Claymates 2022”, An Invitational Show of Maryland Clay Artists, SoCo Arts Lab, Tracy’s Landing, MD.2023
2021 "In Touch: Connectivity Through Clay", Baltimore Clayworks ,Baltimore MD, curated by Margaret Boozer
2021 Gateway Arts District Virtual Tour, presentation of self created video of my Otis Street Studio.
2020 "Reflections of Self", Prince Georges Juried Exhibiton, featured video: "Flow", Arts and Cultural Heritage Division, Montpelier, Laurel, MD
2020 “Conscious Transitions”, National Council on Education and the Ceramic Arts, curated by Lisa Battle and Nina Kawar, Uptown Gallery, Richmond VA
2020 “ReClaimed ReUsed RePurposed”, curated by Molly Ruppert, Studio Gallery, DC
2019 “Reflections of Self”, 31st Annual Prince Georges’s County Juried Exhibition, curator: John Coppola, Montpelieer Arts Center, Laurel, MD,
2019 “Play, Protection, Peril”, curated by Liz Ashe, Zenith Community Arts Foundation at H-Space, Washington DC
2019 “Artists By the Tracks”, juried exhibition of artists from the studios on Otis Street in Mt. Ranier,
Art Enables, Washington DC
2019 "Entwined", reception and exhibition featuring commissioned installation and other works,
collector: Charlotte Troup Leighton, MD
2019 “Transitions”, Exhibition of Otis Street Arts Project Studio Artists, Mt. Ranier, MD
2018 “Chimerical”, Solo Exhibition, Artists and Makers Main Gallery, Rockville, MD
2018 “Solo Exhibition”, curated by Billy Friebele, Dunbarton Music Series for the Smithsonian Jazz Concert Series,
Washington, DC,
2018 “Artists Against Gunviolence”, curated by Molly Ruppert, Washington, DC
2018 "Manifold", Exhibition at Otis Street Arts Project of studio artists, Mt. Ranier, MD
2018 “Alchemical Vessels”, selected by curator/juror Erin Devine, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, DC, sculpture entry featured on cover of exhibition catalogue
2018 “Nature Inspired”, curated by Melanie McIntyre Gugliuzza, Marlboro Gallery,
Prince Georges Community College, Largo, MD,
2017 Featured Window Artist, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD
2017 “Ambit”, Curator and Exhibitor, Otis Street Art Project, Mt. Ranier, MD
2017 “Thresholds of Art and Science”, Featured Artist, Galleries at the Takoma Park Community Center, Takoma Park, MD
2017 “Alchemical Vessels”, selected by gallerist/curator: Judith Heartsong, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery,
Washington, DC
2017 “Sculpture Now 2017”, curator: Nancy Sausser, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2017 “ARTgineering: Beyond the Obvious”, curated by Gloria Chapa, Otis Street Arts Project, Mount Ranier, MD
2017 Featured Artist, curated by Patricia Dubroof, The Lois and Richard England Gallery at Iona,Washington, DC
2016 “OSAP Overtures”, Exhibition of the Otis Street Arts Project studio artists with the Gateway Open Studio Tour,
Mt.Rainier, MD
2016 “OSAP Artists at Logan Fringe Art Space,” Exhibition of Otis Street Arts Project studio artists, Washington, DC
2016 “8 Out of the Box Artists”, exhibition of Otis Street Arts Project studio artists, at Artists and Makers, Rockville, MD
2016 “Home Again”, The 28th Annual Prince George’s County Juried Exhibition, Curator: Sarah Tanguy, Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel MD
2016 “Creative Corridor: Artists of the Gateway Arts District”, Marlboro Gallery, Prince Georges Community College, Largo, MD
2015 “Sculpture Now 2015: Ephemeral”, Curator: Holly Koons McCullough, Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA
2015 “Sanctuary”, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, sponsored by Washington Sculptors Guild, Washington, DC
2015 “Ephemeral”, Selected Works from Washington Sculptors Guild, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA
2015 “Art Night 2015”, Washington Project for the Art s Exhibition, Auction and Gala, Washington DC
2014 “Full Fathom Five”, Collaborative Exhibition with Alison Sigethy at VisArts Gibbs Street Gallery, Rockville, MD
2015 “SELECT 2015”, Washington Project for the Arts 34th Art Auction Exhibition and Gala, One of four center-piece sculptors selected by Kristi-Anne Caisse, Assistant Director, American University Museum. Katzen Arts Center,DC
2014 “Fathom”, MiniSolos@Touchstone”, Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC
2014 “Five Make Art”, curated, organized and exhibited at Harmony Hall Regional Arts Center, Fort Washington, MD
2013 “Siting Presence”, curated by Sarah Tanguy, Featured Artist, American Center for Physics, College Park, MD
2012 “Like.Comment.Share”, Featured Artist, Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington DC
2011 “Xenophilia”, Solo Exhibition of Biomorphic Sculpture, Arts/Harmony Hall Regional Center, Fort Washington MD
2011 “Xenophilia Interpretations”, Producer, multimedia performance, Harmony Hall Regional Center, Fort Washington, MD
2011 “Embers”, Solo Exhibition of Ceramic Vessels and Sculpture, Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD
2008 “Beauty and the Beast”, Solo Exhibition of Vessels and Sculpture, Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD
2008 “Myth of Permanence”, Exhibition at the National Council of Education for the Ceramic Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2007 “The Best of Artomatic 2007”, curator and exhibitor, Creative Partners Gallery, Bethesda, MD
2006 “Corcoran Silver Anniversary Art Auction”, Washington Project for the Arts, Corcoran Gallery,
Washington DC
2006 “Autumn Celebration of Art”, Invitational, McBride Gallery, Annapolis, MD
2005 “Fireworks”, Solo Exhibition, Creative Partners Gallery, Bethesda, MD
2003 Smithsonian Craft Show Auction, selected for center display, Smithsonian Institution,Washington, DC
2015 “Sanctuary”, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, sponsored by Washington Sculptors Guild, Washington, DC
2015 “Ephemeral”, Selected Works from Washington Sculptors Guild, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA
2013 “Sculpture Now”, Washington Sculptors Group, curator: Florcy Morrisett, Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC
1989
-2002 Kiln Club’s Annual Shows: Scope Gallery, Torpedo Factory, 2002 Juror’s Choice; 2000 First Prize;
1999 Third prize,1992 First prize, Scope Gallery, Alexandria, VA
Commissions and Collections
2018 Commissioned by Charlotte Troupe Leighton to create wall sculpture for her private collection, MD
1992 Commissioned to create The Women of Distinction Awards for the National Conference of College Women Student Leaders, George Washington University, Washington, DC.
1983 The National Museum of Botswana purchased a selection of works for their permanent collection,
Gabarone, Botswana, Africa