Liz Sales Explained

Liz Sales is an American artist and educator. She works primarily in the medium of photography, and her work explores the interplay between lens-based perception and human perception. Her writing has been published in multiple magazines, including International Street Photographer, Triple Canopy, Foam Magazine, and Musée Magazine. She was an editor at Conveyer Magazine. Sales works in New York City.^[1]

Her interest in photography began as a teenager, when she began constructing her own cameras from a variety of materials after learning to make a pinhole camera in a class. She continues to build cameras using a variety of media, stating in an interview: "I think I like the idea that cameras are not exclusively commodities; all things possess the potential to become cameras."^[2] Sales holds an MFA from a joint program between Bard College and the International Center of Photography. She also received a BA from Evergreen State College.^[3] She teaches classes at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, the University of Connecticut, and the International Center of Photography.^[4]

Exhibitions

• A build-it-yourself (multi)verse, ICP Studio Gallery, Long Island City, 2010^[5]
• Paper Moon, Gallery Aferro, Newark, New Jersey, 2010^[6]
• Nature Within, ISE Cultural Foundation @ Front Space, New York, June 3 - July 1, 2011.^[7]
• ICP-Bard MFA Thesis Group Exhibition, Rita K. Hillman Gallery, New York, March 30 - May 20, 2012.^[8]
• Structure For Reading: Text (Infra)structure & The Reading Body in Contemporary Art, Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago, February 15 - April 6, 2013.^[9]
• The Eye's Mind, New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan branch, New York, September 4, 2013 - March 17, 2014.^[10]

Publications

• I Write Artist Statements. Hillsborough, North Carolina: Daylight Books, July 2018.^[11]
• This Folder May Contain Clippings and Other Ephemeral Material. Jersey City, New Jersey: Conveyor Arts, September 2012.^[12]
• Music Books. New York : Liz Sales, 2010^[13]

External links

• https://lizsales.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Liz Sales. LensCulture. Liz Sales . LensCulture. 2019-03-09.
2. Web site: Meet the Photographer: Liz Sales. Musée Magazine. 22 June 2012 . en-US. 2019-03-09.
3. Web site: Foam Magazine #39: Talent (2014). Foam Webshop. en. 2019-03-09.
4. Book: I Write Artist Statements.. Sales, Liz. 2018. Daylight Books. Aaron, Richards.. 9781942084600. Durham, North Carolina. 1032724704.
5. Web site: a build-it-yourself (multi)verse. Nelson. Clark Richard. 2010-04-09. EYE TO EYE. en. 2019-03-09.
6. Web site: Previous Events. 2013-11-02. en. 2019-03-09.
7. Web site: Nature Within » Exhibition - Nature Within, an Other Exhibition. https://web.archive.org/web/20120203192633/http://www.naturewithinexhibit.com/?page_id=223. dead. 2012-02-03. 2012-02-03. 2019-03-09.
8. Web site: ICP-Bard MFA: 2012 Group Thesis Exhibition. 2016-02-23. International Center of Photography. en. 2019-03-09.
9. Web site: Structures for Reading: Text, (Infra) Structure & the Reading Body in Contemporary Art. 22 February 2013 . 2019-03-09.
10. Web site: Liz Sales - The Eye's Mind - Photo Walls in Picture Collection Exhibition Series. The New York Public Library. 2019-03-09.
11. Book: I Write Artist Statements.. Sales. Liz. Aaron. Richards. 2018. Daylight Books. 9781942084600. Durham, North Carolina. English. 1032724704.
12. Book: Sales, Liz. This folder may contain clippings and other ephemeral material. . .. 2011. Conveyor arts. Hoboken, New Jersey. English. 778495785.
13. Book: Music Book. Sales. Liz. Shaw. Bernard. 2010. Liz Sales. New York. English. 530177795.