Liz Hickok

Liz Hickok is a San Francisco-based artist working in photography, video, sculpture, installation, and currently, Jell-O. In her current series,"Fugitive Topography: San Francisco in Jell-O" She creates glowing, jellied scale models of urban sites, transforming ordinary physical surroundings into something unexpected and ephemeral. Lit from below, the molded shapes of the city blur into a jewel-like mosaic of luminous color and volume. The gelatinous material also evokes uncanny parallels with the geological uncertainties of San Francisco's landscape. While the translucent beauty of the compositions first seduces the viewer, their fragility quickly becomes a metaphor for the transitory nature of human artifacts.

Hickok's artwork has been exhibited across the country and is included in international collections. Her photographs and video have been shown in many Bay Area venues, including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Jose Museum of Art, Southern Exposure, the Headlands Center for the Arts, Works/San Jose, and the Kala Art Institute. She has also exhibited internationally at the Ha'Kibbutz Israeli Art Gallery in Tel Aviv, and nationally at the Seattle Center of Contemporary Art, Pittsburg State University (KS), and the Arts and Literature Laboratory (CT).