Westport Book Shop August Art Exhibit Features Elizabeth Petrie-Devoll

Press release from Westport Book Sale Ventures:

Aug. 3, 2022

The Westport Book Shop is pleased to welcome artist Elizabeth Petrie-Devoll as guest exhibitor for the month of August at the Book Shop’s Drew Friedman Art Place.

Elizabeth is exhibiting eleven original assemblage artworks. Elizabeth creates new art from old objects with a practice that enlivens history and questions the supposed border between the past and the present. She sees possibility in the discarded, weathered, and forgotten. A student and lover of history, Elizabeth uses her archivist sensibility to combine found antiquities into immersive, vibrant, miniature theaters. “In a disposable age, I reconfigure, repurpose, and compose well-worn and often utilitarian relics. With unknown yet imagined histories, these artifacts become pieces of nostalgic and puzzle-like compositions,” said Elizabeth.

Elizabeth works from her home studio in Westport, and regularly exhibits art in Fairfield County and surrounding areas. She is a member of the Board of the Artists Collective of Westport. Elizabeth holds a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis’ School of Fine Arts, and spent over a decade as an art director on Madison Avenue, primarily at BBDO. She has taught art in various locations in Fairfield County, and served for ten years as Education Director and Artist in Residence at the Westport Historical Society.

Elizabeth’s artwork will be on exhibit at the Book Shop through August 31, 2022. All artwork on display is available for purchase.

To see more of Elizabeth Devoll’s works, visit her website: www.epdevoll.com

Westport Book Shop, a nonprofit used book store, is downtown Westport’s only source for gently used and antiquarian books, vintage vinyl records, CDs, DVDs and audio books. It is located at 23 Jesup Road, right across Jesup Green from the Westport Library.

The Book Shop’s “Drew Friedman Art Place” is an area of the store dedicated to exhibiting the work of community artists year-round, on a rotating basis. Miggs Burroughs, a Trustee of the Drew Friedman Community Arts Center, and a founding member of The Artists Collective of Westport, is curating these exhibits, which change monthly.

The art exhibit is open to the public during the Book Shop’s business hours: Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sundays from Noon to 5 p.m. (closed Mondays).

This press release was produced by Westport Book Sale Ventures. The views expressed here are the author's own.