ABOUT

Matron Studio is the creative outfit of Eliza Lutz (they/them), a disabled artist from New Mexico, USA. Working primarily as a printmaker, illustrator, and fiber artist, their work explores the dissonance between one’s internal and external worlds, and the relationships between trauma, chronic illness, language, and time. They are currently a PhD student in the Linguistics Dept. at UNM researching how language shapes our perceptions of disability, a focus that directly impacts their creative practice.

“Printmaking is a medium that works both in concert and in conflict with my experience of chronic illness. Both are tedious and require infinite patience. But printmaking’s laborious nature is also at odds with my body, exacerbating symptoms that make the repetition and precision of the discipline uniquely challenging. This friction directly informs my practice as I explore the visibility vs. invisibility of chronic illness through both the process of making and content of my work. I incorporate embroidery as an expression of the body’s relationship with the built environment, connecting the places where internal experience and external perception meet.”