Elizabeth Rhoads Read

Contemporary fiber art and sculpture


About


Elizabeth Rhoads Read graduated from Cornell College with a degree in art and political science. She has spent over 50 years creating, exhibiting and teaching art. Her work has been exhibited and is included in both the U.S. and abroad. A reviewer wrote about Elizabeth’s work, “[it] recalls the late post minimalist artist Eva Hesse in it’s combination of minimalist sensibility with abject items”. She currently lives and works in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Her work uses simple materials such as paper, discarded fabric and abject items to create organic sculptures. The assemblage of rearranged fragments and their relationships of the parts is her language. Elizabeth’s eye for composition and compulsion for texture invoke the sense of recesses and secret hiding places; spaces that pull one in for shelter. Her pieces create illusive light, interspersed space and speculation beyond the boundaries of the medium. Her philosophy is to immerse herself in textures and tones to express the intensity of human emotions.
 
Her current work is continually evolving, informed by her experiences and mediums she encounters. To Elizabeth, art is everywhere and if the viewer is open to that profound belief, the simplicity and directness of her materials and techniques are refreshing in this complicated world.

Public Art
Cedar Rapids Area Convention and Visitor's Center
Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Guaranty Bank and Trust
Midwest Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Ohio State University
Iowa State University
Remax Realtors
Renaissance Group, Inc
University of Iowa Department of Intercollegiate Athletics
University of Iowa Library
Us Cellular Center
Wells Fargo Bank
Ames Public Art


Collections Public
Kirkwood Community College
Mercy Hospital
St. Luke's Hospital
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
CRST
Skogman Realty
Society Insurance
Serr and Shannon
Crawford and Sullivan Law
League of Women Voters - Linn County
Waterloo Arts Center

Related Links and Representation

Gilded Pear Gallery

IN Tandem Arts and Authors Gallery

East West Fine Arts

Cedar River Artisans

Iowa Artisans Gallery

Instagram

Facebook


For purchase information or other inquires she can be reached by mail, phone or email at

Elizabeth Rhoads Read
3951 Hickory Ridge Lane S.E.
Cedar Rapids, IA 52403

319-365-8531

[email protected]