About This Item:

• Screenprint + Collage on Canvas

• Repurposed Wooden Frame

• Dimensions: 14"L” x 1.5”W x 14"H

85 years is a print media collage piece that Liz Maugans completed in 2018, which was part of a solo exhibition at HEDGE Gallery titled Beautiful Mess. Liz's body of work for this exhibit focused on her role as a daughter, mother, wife and artist, and the complexities of human emotions experienced throughout life.

Liz Maugans is a contemporary printmaker whose multi layered style is infused with bold and subtle color choices and organic shapes and patterns. Her collage based prints make commentary on politics, social issues, and her personal life as an artist, wife and mother. Maugans was the director and co-founder of Zygote Press printmaking facility in Cleveland, Ohio for 20 years. She has taught printmaking and drawing at Northeast Ohio art colleges, and was a recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Arts Fellowship in 2000. She graduated with a BFA from Kent State University and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.