Education

Professional History

BA Art History, UCLA
MA Preventive Conservation, Northumbria University

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Professional Memberships
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Post-Graduate Member of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC)
Member of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC)
Member of the Western Association for Art Conservation (WAAC)
Member of the International Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC)
Member of the Washington Conservation Guild

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Instructor Northern States Conservation Center https://www.collectioncare.org/instructor-bios

Elizabeth has worked in paintings conservation since 2013 and has conducted environmental analysis and implemented climate control measures for museums since 2017. Elizabeth Burton has also displayed her own artwork in galleries around the country and was a winner of the Congressional Art Award. Elizabeth contributes to the museum studies and preventive conservation fields as an instructor for the Northern States Conservation Center where she teaches the following courses: "Collections Assessments," "Care of Paintings," and "Museum Cleaning Basics" several times each year.

Elizabeth has worked with the Pleasant Valley Historical Society Museum, La Jolla Map & Atlas Museum, Julian Pioneer Museum, and others. Her focus is 1850's to contemporary paintings and is especially passionate about working on paintings of late 19th and early 20th century California artists and heirloom pieces close to the hearts of their owners.

With a focus on modern and contemporary paintings, Elizabeth has worked on dozens of pieces by Sam Gilliam, David Hockney, and Robert Colescott. She has also worked on pieces by Henry Taylor, Ed Ruscha, Marilyn Minter, Kenny Scharf, Robert Cottingham, Mary Weatherford, Richard Prince, George Condo, Allison Katz, Allison van Pelt, Jack Goldstein, Lee Ufan, Takashi Murakami, Allison Schulnik, Mark Grotjahn, Mark Bradford, Ha Chong-Hyun, William Wendt, Eric Orr, Alfred Mitchell, Ed Moses, Lynda Benglis, Josef Kleitsch, Loren Barton, Agnes Pelton, John Altoon, Charles Smith, Einar Petersen, Yolanda Gonzalez, Jeremy de Prez, Edwin Deakin, Josef Albers, Yoshitomo Nara, William Foster, Noah Purifoy, Charles Garabedian, Bruce Cohen, Kris Kauper, Orin White, Paul Jenkins, Andre Butzer, Jack Zajac, Maxine Smith, Leona Wood, Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Yayoi Kusama, Elaine Sturtevant, Hilaire Hiler, Waldo Pierce, Judy Bamber, Raymond Staprans, Cy Twombly, Cecily Brown, Asger Jorn, Milton Avery, Jeff Koons, Tala Madani, John Wesley, Larry Bell, Conroy Maddox, Amy Bennett, Jonas Wood, and more.