Liz-N-Val

They have been a working team for over thirty years inventing numerous conceptual museums and the concept of Signature Art.

Liz-N-Val have mixed a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture and the combination of all of the above plus language art.

[1] Elizabeth Clark and Valentine Goroshko met in the late 1970s and started a collaboration, producing art, events and transgressions[2] in both private and public space.

[3] Steven Breslow wrote about their exhibition "Clark and Goroshko Rockin’ 80's", 1981, at White Columns: “Mixing multi-media, sculpture, painting, graffiti",[4] collage, conceptual language games in Russian and English and even earthworks,[5] into forceful forms that make gritty political and social statements,[6] they open a wide door into a complexly ironic and pluralistic mode of art which does not have a name as yet”.

[18] Later, the couple set up tables on West Broadway, where they created a public interaction using the poster and passing out questionnaires; these materials were later used at Queens College in a class called The Anthropology of Sexuality.

One day, Liz-N-Val found a large piece of framed plywood leaning next to their door on Mercer Street.

Morisawa- Linotype, a Japanese company included two images of walls they had painted in SoHo, in their 1984 New York Graffiti Calendar.

Dressed as aliens carrying signs saying "Seeking Truth and Beauty", they got a big response from truckers who shouted out their windows, "you won't find any of that here".

[33] Another proposed monument, Crime Path, consisted of a road made of large aluminum plates, covered with painted black footprints going into the distance.

The most recent monumental project by Liz-N-Val is Global Museum Presents Abstractrealism (2012): a natural piece of canvas painted with multi-colored words: illegal - unsanctified - interactions - occupations - transgressions - monetary-market-relational-esthetics.

For example, the sign: ‘WET PAINT’ has shifted, over time, from convention to concept - to appearing on T- shirts and devolving into a possible exhibition.