Liz Albert + Shane VanOosterhout

Liz Albert is a lens-based artist, educator and zealous idea sparker. She has exhibited her work in group shows as well as in multiple print and online publications in the US and abroad. She had her first solo exhibition of her series, Family Fictions at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA and recently showed her work at the Revela’T Contemporary Analog Photography Festival in Spain, Fall of 2020. She resides in Boston, Massachusetts.

Shane VanOosterhout is a creative entrepreneur, designer and plant whiz. He works as an adjunct digital media professor at Kendall College of Art & Design and is a coordinator with the Grand Rapids Center for Community Transformation where he dons many hats ranging from mentoring; landscape design and horticulture expertise. He resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Liz and Shane became friends when they both performed in the 1977 Civic Theatre production of Pinocchio. From that fateful experience came a life-long bond as they shambled through High School and their own colorful family dynamics. After graduation they both attended art school at University of Michigan and have pursued careers in the arts and education. Instant Classic is a joint project they have been working on since spring of 2020. Since that time, they have shown their work at The Alice Wilds Gallery in Milwaukee, WI, The Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA and as a large-scale public art installation at ArtPrize 2021 in Grand Rapids, MI. Their work has also been featured in the print publication, Maake Magazine.

Liz and Shane became friends when they both performed in the 1977 Civic Theatre production of Pinocchio. From that fateful experience came a life-long bond as they shambled through High School and their own colorful family dynamics. After graduation they both attended art school at University of Michigan and have pursued careers in the arts and education. Instant Classic is a joint project they have been working on since spring of 2020. Since that time, they have shown their work at The Alice Wilds Gallery in Milwaukee, WI, The Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA and as a large-scale public art installation at ArtPrize 2021 in Grand Rapids, MI. Their work has also been featured in the print publication, Maake Magazine.

Instagram: @lizalbertstudio and @shanevan_00

images of work

You can’t just sit around feeling sorry for yourself, archival pigment print, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2021, $350
Is there no end to all this happiness?, archival pigment print, 8.5 inches x 11 inches, 2021, $350
What you count on happening…probably will, archival pigment print, 8.5 x 11 inches, $350
I always felt you’d never want to be friends with me, archival pigment print, 8.5 inches x 11 inches, 2021, $350
This dream scares me but I know it’s normal, archival pigment print, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2021, $350