Elizabeth Quinn (she/her) lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She studied photography at Sewanee, the University of the South, and has shown work at Kentuck Art Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, at the University Gallery in Sewanee, Tennessee, and at The Mount Sequoyah Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Quinn’s photographs bring meaning to the energetic phenomena of the human form in states of exploration, interrogating the relationship between simple moments of personal interaction and the frameworks—natural and institutional, earthly and ethereal—that define a discourse between venue and occupant. Her experimental, even whimsical, approach to visual conventions—welcoming often distorted scales and perspectives—highlights the uncertainty at play in human experience and the permeable and translucent layers of background and foreground that give personality to shared spaces and physical engagement. Her audience finds multiple points of view in the photography and walks away with a refreshed, if not disrupted, conception of our capacity to glimpse things otherwise unseen.

Quinn studied creative writing at the University of Arkansas and Virginia Commonwealth University, where she earned an MFA in fiction writing. She writes short stories about people, most of which focus on the unusual internal lives of seemingly ordinary people and on the complexity of even the simplest human interaction.

She currently works out of a studio at Mt. Sequoyah’s Creative Spaces.