liza is a multidiscplinary artist born n’ raised in hollywood, fl. she has worked with clay since 2014, taught community classes in broward county since 2018, and launched dirty lizard in the summer of 2023.

liza combines a range of wheelthrowing and handbuilding techniques to create quietly curved, occasionally complex forms with weathered surfaces that reflect the south floridian landscape, concentrating mostly on drinking and storage vessels to share among the community. sipping deeply on the florida’s aquifer, I make these pots, and the pots make real the memory, of a memory, of our collective history — from deco-motifs, sloping architecture and algae-stained stucco to the muted greens, reds and yellows seen in our surrounding swamplands, I ask where do you live? is it here? do you see the heat and dirt and mildew? do you feel the layers of raw concrete and development? where have we taken ourselves?

IG: @dirtylizardstudio