Artwork by Liz LangdonPublic Art Installation, School and Community Collaborations,
Exhibitions, Personal Works
Public Art Commissions
AnDramaDoe, 2001, J Doe Project, Omaha’s first public art project
Douglas CountyCourt House, Omaha, NEfiberglass figure with
ceramic tile
Currently in residence at The Rose Theater for Young People, Omaha, NE
Rear view
Iron Tail , Elements, Fontenelle Forest, Omaha, NE 2003
Resides at Hotshops Arts Center, Omaha. 6’x 12’
Tile, tesserae, and steel. Steel frame fabricated by Loken Forge, Omaha
The First Meeting, Lewis and Clark Memorial Icon, N.P. Dodge Park, Omaha, NE 2004
Clay relief pieces created to fill one of eight Icon monuments placed along both sides of the Missouri River in Nebraska and Iowa.
Panel is 48” x 25”Stoneware and porcelain, salt-fired and oxidation glazes
The Seasons Clock, Omaha Hilton Hotel Lobby, 2007
Slip cast and wood fired porcelain with glass tesserae, hand blown glass blubs, and clock parts.
Blue Willow Tale in Tangrams, ArtisTree, Joslyn Art Museum 2005
Plates, tile, sand-blasted glass, wood, cast and wrought iron
4 views, 1 view w/shadows, 1 detail, Dimensions 36” x 36”
School/Community Collaborations
Children’s Hospital Waiting Room, Omaha, NE 1999
Collaboration with Joslyn Art Museum students and Community, Low fired clay and glaze, commercial ceramic tile 4’x16’.
Dragon Bench, Omaha Children’s Museum, 2003
Collaboration with Shop Class students and Ceramic students atBryan Senior High, Omaha, NE40”x 48”x 24”
Low fire clay and re cycled porcelain tesserae on wood and concrete.
Bryant Center Community Mural, Omaha, NE 2011
Cypress Street Café and Symbol Tiles, 2013
Collaboration with the Day Resource Center for the Homeless and TCU Students, Fort Worth , TX
Still Lifes in the Age of Conflict, Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE 2007
All Hands on the Table, ceramic and utensils
Endangered Species, 2 views, salt-fired cast porcelain and wheel thrown clay, a vine
Bountiful Babe, wheel thrown, cast ceramic and found object, and seamstress mannequin, 18”x 28”
Making the Political Personal, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Nebraska City, NE 2009 Installation views
The pedestal sculptures represent the diverse places and situations the students in my classroom came from. They are bricolage, made from discarded student work and other found objects which I treated to create the desired effect.
Reaching, hand-built and slip cast ceramic,with found objects and glass
Hiding, hand-built and slip cast ceramic,with found objects
Shotgun, hand-built and cast ceramic and found object
Cozy, hand-built and cast ceramic and found object
Seeking, hand built and slip cast ceramic,with found objects and glass
Seeking, 2nd view
Pope Pius Xll , Bound and Blind Pope John Paul’s Ascendency
Whose Story Space- aged Babies
Curb Your Appetite 1 Curb Your Appetite 2
Personal Art Work
Since 2004 I’ve taken classic and kitsch imagery found in commercialplates and ceramic decals, combined them with overglaze decalslusters, as well as other ceramic additions for purposes of fun, fantasyand sometimes, for critical reflection.
Clocks Out of Step
Desserts, handbuilt, wheel thrown and altered clay, found objects
Portal, 1984 , 18’x 24’ colored pencil Heart Attack, 1998, 16” x20” mixed media
Early drawings envisioning installations, 1980’s