Lizzy Chemel

Pronouns: she/her

January 6 – March 28, 2025

Lizzy Chemel is a New York City-based artist who makes sculptures in ceramic, found materials, wax, bronze, and cement. She uses mold-making to combine unlike objects that draw from her curiosity about undocumented ancestry. Adopted from Southern China and raised in California, Chemel’s works are influenced by ancient Chinese artifacts, translations, and folklore, as well as memories and iconography of her American upbringing.

During her residency, Chemel will continue developing a series of plaster molds that draw inspiration from the intersection of traditional Chinese culture and Hollywood kitsch. Her work will involve slip-casting from a range of molds, including both direct life-casts of objects such as pig feet and stones, as well as once-familiar items like Lincoln Logs that have been manipulated, combined, and resized.

Chemel earned her MFA in sculpture from New York University. Recent exhibitions include: Night Club Gallery (Minneapolis, MN; 2023), Hyacinth Gallery (New York,NY; 2023) Jane Hartsook Gallery (New York, NY; 2022) , 80WSE (New York, NY; 2022), and Conduit Gallery (Ridgewood, NY; 2021). She was a resident at A-Z West, and is currently a studio assistant for Simone Leigh.