Elisa Dore

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My work exists as a record of personal and ancestral histories and how place informs constructions of identity. Printmaking functions as a vehicle for recording in my practice—the Spanish word for printmaking, grabado, also means recorded. In an attempt to physically manifest amorphous concepts of identity, culture, or memories, an image carved into wood or etched into stone offers a tangible answer. My printmaking-based practice addresses interstitial ways of being that are often untranslatable to words.

Elisa Dore was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to a Puerto Rican mother and white American father. She has had an active art practice in printmaking for the last seven years and is currently pursuing an MFA at Georgia State University.