
Elizabeth Ward, M.F.A.
- Professor , Art and Art History
I have been exhibiting my work professionally for over 30 years. I work primarily in painting and drawing with an emphasis on works on paper.
My imagery is informed by natural history and the environmental crisis. My creative work and my teaching converge in the Outdoor Studio course in which I bring students to sites in and around San Antonio to make works of art outdoors.
Solo Exhibitions (Recent)
2020
Texas Women: A New History of Abstract Art, San Antonio Museum of Art (Catalogue)
Hockney to Warhol: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
2019
Floating Life: Mississippi River Drawings by Liz Ward, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
Floating Life: Mississippi River Drawings by Liz Ward, San Antonio College, San Antonio, Texas
2017
Watershed, Moody Gallery, Houston
2015
Ghosts of the Old Mississippi, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas
2014
Time and Temperature, The Gallery at University of Texas at Arlington, Texas (Catalogue)
Unchopping a Tree, Neidorff Art Gallery, Trinity University, San Antonio; traveled to Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
2010
Deep Time, Dunn & Brown Contemporary, Dallas
2008
Crazy Weather, Moody Gallery, Houston
2007
Rivers and Waves, Michael and Noemi Neidorff Art Gallery, Trinity University, San Antonio
2006
Aqueous, Women and Their Work, Austin (Catalogue)
Wake Capture, Dunn & Brown Contemporary, Dallas
Group Exhibitions (Recent)
2010
Aqueous Abstractions: Contemporary American Watercolors, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Advancing Tradition: 20 Years at Flatbed Press, Austin Museum of Art
35th Anniversary Exhibition, Moody Gallery, Houston
Texas Women Printmakers, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas
2009
Waterflow, San Antonio Museum of Art (Catalogue)
Art and Nature, Austin Museum of Art - Laguna Gloria
On, of or About Paper, Gallery 1, Texas State University, San Marcos
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas
2008
Thunder Within the Earth (four- person exhibition), Art League, Houston
Something New, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas
Fathom, Gallery 2, Texas State University, San Marcos
Flatbed Press, Travis Tower Lobby, Houston
Pulp Friction: Contemporary Works on Paper, Deloney Newkirk Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Contemporary Printmakers: The Artists of Flatbed Press, Curfman Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
I am an active participant in the Texas art scene, primarily in San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, and Austin. I am on the San Antonio Museum of Art Artist Advisory Board, and I support numerous Texas art institutions and art educational programs by creating and donating works of art. I am also a member of various environmental organizations, such as the San Antonio Audubon Society.
I chair the committee responsible for programming the Neidorff Art Gallery. I am very involved in working with other faculty to shape the new environmental studies major. I participate in faculty governance, I served on the Faculty Senate, and I am a loyal yoga student in the Wellness Program.