About the Artist
Lisa is intrigued by the notion of hybridization; the fusing of elements that may at first glance appear to be unrelated. She's drawn to found objects -- altering them conceptually so that their meanings and original uses are re-purposed. She often fuses "wrong" things together: doilies on the wall, tanks made of bright pink felt generating pretty patterns, sewing onto paper, environmental toxins molecularly represented by doilies, sewing without thread (the act of mending with out its mending capabilities), the back side of embroidery shown as the front, etc.
Lisa grew up in Los Angeles and moved north to go to UC Berkeley. She lives in Oakland California with her husband, her daughter, a one eyed pit bull, a deaf frenchie and a cross-eyed cat. She teaches at several academic institutions in the Bay Area.
