Elise Love-McCorkle (b. 1994) (she/her) grew up in Austin, studied advertising at the University of Texas at Austin—within the Texas Media & Analytics sequence—and has spent the majority of the last decade living in Lisbon. From posters and commercial projects to conceptual art pieces, her visual work has been exhibited in Lisbon, London, and Mexico City. It has also been published in SANd, a Berlin-based poetry and art journal founded by a writer from Oklahoma, and her writing has been printed in the oldest continuously published poetry journal in the United States, poet lore. Additionally, she is the director of Centro, a forthcoming artist-run initiative that will support artistic developments that deepen her understanding of anthropocentric ways of seeing.
Since 2021, love-mccorkle has practiced low-cost and sustainable artistic creation by reusing her materials, using spare or leftover supplies provided by the art spaces in which she has worked, and by repurposing items that she finds set out on the sidewalk.
An interdisciplinary artist, she informally studies performance optimization and conscious role play (as well as the practicality of rotating parts), and practices through a methodic framework for sustainable production.
In 2026, she aims for 95% of the materials she utilizes for her visual artworks to be found, contributed, or repurposed. She is currently contacting associations and businesses in Portugal that may be interested in contributing supplies that would otherwise be discarded, or go unused, to support this endeavor.
Below, there is a page titled ‘supply,’ where items can be purchased. This assortment of items is referred to as a 'supply,' because, rather than seeing these works as products, she understands them as assemblies of her practice—parts of a larger processing machine. They functionally contribute to a cohesive study.
To get in touch, send an email to contact@eliselovemc.com.