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Liz Langyher is a midwestern ceramic artist who works primarily in ceramic installation.
Born and raised between Illinois and Virginia/Maryland, she received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Ceramics at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland in 2016. In 2022, she graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts in Art Practices - Ceramics at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colorado.
Elizabeth Langyher has been an artist-in-residence at Haystack School of Crafts, the Medalta Historic Clay District in Alberta, Canada, Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, Montana, Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Skaelskor, Denmark, and at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine.
“I consider my practice as an act of catharsis, a constant eulogy for a stretch of land, a road, and the time spent between miles. I am interested in the attempt to depict the ephemeral nature of memory and wonder at the intersection of human and natural landscapes through ceramic art. This desire was sparked years ago by childhood landscapes framed by the car window, by an experience mistaking summer fireflies for something uncanny, unknown, and wondrous, and by the delight of light as it passed through a bedroom window. I pull from life, keeping a log of the things that draw me in. I abstract those things into symbols through clay, a medium of mimicry, and expand the moments into large installations that explore the relationship of object to texture to color to memory to feeling until the artwork encapsulates the same feeling of wonder, delight, and curiosity that I have for the world around me and my place in it.”