Glass Houses 22: Lizzy Wetzel

by Everett Taasevigen August 23, 2010
Alexander John Drysdale, Sunset Over the Bayou, 1908, oil on canvas.
Alexander John Drysdale, Sunset Over the Bayou, 1908, oil on canvas.
Paul Richard Schumann, Sailboats on Galveston Bay, c. 1925, oil on canvas.
Paul Richard Schumann, Sailboats on Galveston Bay, c. 1925, oil on canvas.
Bar hall installation by L. Lastima Harris, featuring pigment printed photographs of bar interiors, glowing with red light.
Bar hall installation by L. Lastima Harris, featuring pigment printed photographs of bar interiors, glowing with red light.
Trenity Thomas, archival pigment print.
Trenity Thomas, archival pigment print.

Dallas artist Lizzy Wetzel has a very strong personal iconography that draws on notions of the spiritual and supernatural from a variety of cultures. In addition to her intensely detailed sculptures and installations, she also performs what she calls “service actions,” which would traditionally be called performance art by anybody else. These service actions are inspired by her grandfather, a medical doctor who routinely made house calls on horseback.

Born in Austin, Texas, Lizzy Wetzel received her BFA from the School of Visual Art at the University of North Texas in Denton. She has shown work at Road Agent Gallery in Dallas, FotoFest Houston, the Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Art Palace in Austin, 500X Gallery in Dallas, and Salon Mijangos in San Antonio.

 

 

Everett Taasevigen
is a Houston photographer.

Also by Everett Taasevigen:

Glass Houses 19: Marjorie Schwarz

Glass Houses 18: Margaret Meehan and Noah Simblist

Glass Houses 17: Shamrock Hotel Studios

Glasshouses
16: Gary Sweeney

Glass Houses 15: Lauren Kelley

Glass
Houses 14: Margarita Cabrera

Glass
Houses 13: Hana Hillerova

Glass
Houses 12: Leslie Wilkes

Glass
Houses 11: Julie Speed

Glass
Houses 10: Bert Long

Glass
Houses 9: Steve Brudniak

Glass
Houses 8: David Aylsworth

Glass
Houses 7: Jill Pangallo

Glass
Houses 6: Nestor Topchy

 

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