CFEVA is pleased to present:
Elizabeth Mackie, "Microplastics"
On view at ArtBox @ Lincoln Square⁠
July 17, 2023 through January 2024
1000 S Broad St., Philadelphia, PA⁠

“Microplastics,” looks at the unseen plastic pollutants in our waterways. The 9x7 foot screen is constructed of 594 laser-cut plexiglass circles etched with images representing microplastic fragments. This project was completed during the Mentored Undergraduate Summer Experience 2020 with the assistance of student collaborators Lily Gilston and Sarah Valente.

Elizabeth Mackie is an interdisciplinary artist working in extended media: sculpture, installation. photography, video, sound and textiles. Her accomplishments include fellowships from Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation; New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Center for New Media, Frankfurt, Germany, and NJ Institute of Technology. She received grants from Geraldine R Dodge Foundation; National Science Foundation; and Joseph Robert Foundation. Residencies include Visual Studies Workshop, Washington and Jefferson College, and six from Women’s Studio Workshop. Elizabeth’s independent video productions have been screened internationally, broadcast nationally and purchased by WHYY, Philadelphia. ​

Elizabeth exhibited her work in institutions throughout the United States and abroad, including Australia, Bulgaria, England, Canada, Austria, Poland, Spain, France, Italy, Republic of Cyprus, Germany, Chile and Brazil. More recent exhibition include FLOW, Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia; Conversation with Paper, galleryFRITZ, Santa Fe and three traveling exhibitions, in Europe, the Americas and Australia. ​

Elizabeth received an MFA and BFA from University of Maryland and a BS in Mathematics from Salisbury University. She is a Professor of Art at The College of New Jersey and has taught in London, Cuba, and Frankfurt, Germany. ​