Liz Afif is an atmospheric moody painter whose paintings explore the human condition from her own particular perspective.  She received her MFA in Painting from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2002 and her BFA in Two Dimensional Fine Art from Moore College of Art and Design in 1996.  Some of her more notable exhibitions include a solo exhibition at The Argentine Embassy in Washington DC and at Stapely of Germantown.  She has been included in Philadelphia Sketch Club Small Oils Exhibition the Perkins Center for the Arts Works on Paper exhibtion and received honorable mention in the Small Works exhibition at The Plastics Club in Philadelphia.  She owned Afif Gallery in Philadelphia where she curated a variety of exhibtions was regularly featured in Libby Rosof and Roberta Fallon's Art Blog.  She also continues to curate in alternative venues such as Square Inch Gallery in NYC which she co-founded with David Resnick and at the Center for Dermatologic Surgery in Marlton, NJ, where the juried exhibition "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful" was reviewed by A.D. Amorosi for the Philadelphia Inquirer.  Afif lives in Philadelphia with her boyfriend James Fisher and their dog Boris.