Green Chair 2
(3:36 min; single channel video; 2009)

In Green Chair 2, the second in a projected series of "Green Chair" videos, clips from the first Green Chair, captured in rural upstate New York, have been altered,
and new clips from New York City added, as nature, culture and human persistence interface.

Play video: elizabethrileyprojects.com

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Green Chair 2, Video and Installation
(Pool Art Fair, Wyndham Hotel, New York, NY; 2009)

Successive still frames from the video, Green Chair 2 (image 1), printed on clear inkjet film, form a skin supported by child-size plastic chairs. The actual video plays in the window to the left, while green lawn chairs invite the respite of visitors.

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Luncheon on the Grass
(Unnatural Acts and Other Illicit Thoughts about Nature, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY; 2009)

Reflecting the exhibition theme, Unnatural Acts and Other Illicit Thoughts about Nature, this installation includes a projection of fluorescent green vegetation onto hanging globes of plastic sheeting, and a monitor with mulitple phrases combining the word "natural" with curious partners.

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Green Chair
(2:24 min; single channel video; 2008)

In Green Chair, urbanites inhabit an alternate realm.

1 min excerpt: elizabethrileyprojects.com

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Green Chair, Video and Installation
(MISC Video & Performance, NY Studio Gallery,
New York, NY; 2008)

The installation paired with the single channel video,
Green Chair (image 4), includes six lawn chairs and
a 4" high x 4752" long wrap of paper, which contains
in printed form every frame in the video.

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Liberty
(11:49 min; single channel video; 2007)

Shot in my studio, and on New York City’s West Side—
and employing a blue tarp as a metaphorical dividing line between self and other—Liberty is a narrative of the integration of the body and an individual’s psychological states with the city.

2 min excerpt: elizabethrileyprojects.com

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. . . the new world
(6:20 min; single channel video; 2006)

Performing as a time capsule—framed in familiar, unpretentious materials—the video, . . . the new world, concerns the processes of active change the world is experiencing. Emboding danger and disruption, sensuality and joy in bonding, it is a narrative of the glue and interface that holds the body and the affiliated body of individuals together.

1 min excerpt: elizabethrileyprojects.com

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