Elizabeth Barek is a Miami Beach–based artist whose work reinterprets the American flag through a process grounded in material, memory, and time. She was raised in New York City and educated at the Lycée Français de New York, with a formative year abroad during her early education.

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Her professional background in design and manufacturing, instilled a lasting respect for process, workmanship, and the integrity of handmade objects. She later extended this focus through her involvement with All New American, an initiative dedicated to supporting American craft and makers.

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Her current body of work transforms the American flag into a tactile, constructed surface; pieces that read with bold clarity from a distance, yet reveal a quieter, more intimate complexity up close. Through layering, scraping, and areas of quiet reduction, each work carries a sense of time and human touch, inviting reflection on identity, place, and what is built, shaped, and ultimately earned.

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Influenced in part by the work of her late brother, artist Frank Weeden, and the sculptural practice of her Swiss-born mother, Vera Weeden, Barek’s work approaches the flag not as a fixed emblem alone, but as something enduring—lived with, worked on, and marked by time.

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