Lisa Strier

2011 Art in the Sixes Show 11.19-12.21

2011-11-03T04:46:00.001-04:00

Update: all four SOLD at the 11.19 opening!!!

Open Edition digital photos inkjet printed on 8.5" x 11" onion skin paper glued to 5" x 5" x 1/2" plywood...submitted to the Alliance Gallery for the Art in the Sixes show-- $40 ea

Soot Floats For Some Time

2011-08-19T05:30:00.001-04:00

It's Hard To Brush Your Teeth & Cry At The Same Time

2011-08-10T07:25:00.001-04:00

the sun shines and the park looks very cheerful

2011-08-03T04:43:00.003-04:00

If We All Lied There'd Be No Point In Lying

2011-08-02T07:19:00.002-04:00

The Big Picture & The Small Picture At Odds

2011-08-01T07:13:00.000-04:00

Saving Us The Trouble

2011-07-31T07:08:00.000-04:00

For A Long Time, The Body was Nowhere

2011-07-30T04:52:00.000-04:00

How do we understand each other? In response to this article from the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/world/asia/31herat.html?_r=1

Within Walking Distance of Town

2011-07-25T07:28:00.000-04:00

The terms Are Clear:

2011-07-19T07:44:00.002-04:00

This Is What We Know. The Rest Is Gravy.

2011-07-19T07:42:00.001-04:00

a new project continued: Community Artifacts

2011-07-11T07:41:00.003-04:00

" Learning To Be Relative"

2011 digital image

a new project begins: Community Artifacts

2011-07-11T06:30:00.000-04:00

making new friends...figures are approx 6"-8" from 'aged' tin cans

"Umm, Forever Is A Long Time"

2011-07-10T06:50:00.000-04:00

Reproduction Experiments
digital images

"Forever, Perched In The Same Position"

2011-07-10T06:25:00.000-04:00

Inkjet print on onionskin paper, pastel, charcoal, ink on luan. 26"x26" roughly

Mirror Cells

2011-07-09T05:38:00.000-04:00

Does It Mean To “Die of Natural Causes?”
digital image

"One Big Debate Being Argued On Multiple Fronts"
digital image

"We Don't All Want The Same Things"
digital image

Parcels of Air

2011-07-08T05:45:00.002-04:00

Legible In Reverse

2011-07-07T05:08:00.000-04:00

Digital Images

Garden of the Sleeping Giants

2010-12-12T21:44:00.001-05:00

Basement Language

2010-11-14T21:18:00.001-05:00

Examining More Than One Truth (Hypertufa II)

2010-11-14T20:52:00.009-05:00

My artwork is made from garbage, the waste of consumption (including my own) and scrounged detritus from a carelessly littered landscape. Oddly, it is a collective portrait that exudes a sense of abandonment and loss. To further strain the edges of the gorgeous and the absurd, these paintings won’t survive unless kept indoors, hanging on a wall or put into storage bins. With a sidelong glance, I was looking at paintings that began with a question: What is sacred? and sensing them as mere precious objects.

After an exhibit of my paintings—and in general—I am asked (first) if I’ve sold anything. After I mention that I’m pursuing an MFAIA, I am asked (first) what it will be used for. Those moments clobber me, everything stops. And a space opens up:

What is Enough???

Hypertufa is an artificial stone material that is made of several different aggregates (I used peat moss + perlite) and mixed with Portland cement. It is much lighter than cement but can still withstand harsh weather conditions.

Imagine having the sense that you came here to say something, only to find it has slipped your mind > > >

Tufa, also called travertine or dripstone, is calcium carbonate, CaCO3, formed
* in stalactites, stalagmites, and other deposits in limestone caves,
* as incrustations around mouths of hot and cold calcareous springs
* along streams carrying large amounts of calcium carbonate in solution

Hypertufa has been around in Europe in various forms since the early 1800’s. It originated as a replacement for tufa sinks and troughs, which where expensive and difficult to find.

Portrait_Unknown

2010-11-14T20:46:00.004-05:00

Parcels of Air

2010-11-14T20:25:00.002-05:00

Inhibition of Return

2010-03-25T23:14:00.004-04:00

Reluctantly, They Began To Dream of What They Wanted

2009-09-28T16:40:00.001-04:00

Of The Ocean

2009-08-30T20:13:00.003-04:00

Of The Ocean

begin- a shallow

teardrop

sinks filling

the tongue

This diptych of paintings is an experiment for crossing the boundaries of my poetry and visual art.

click for more detail, working on improving the top image

V-Project

2009-05-18T18:47:00.001-04:00

(The concept behind the 5 paintings below)

V-Project: I am making an effort to reclaim the lost territory of connection and continuity in the chronology of historical discourse. The components I created are unsentimental symbols of vaginas—not meant to be essentialist or reductive, but imaging a part of the body hidden, yet not sealed off from the external world; they are passageways—not fixed points—connecting the inside with the outside, binding one being to another in complicated ways. They are portraits, memoir, autobiography, documentary, fictions.

Systems are an overt and underlying theme in my recent work: the grid, repetition, units, layers, time; concepts of closed systems where nothing can get in or out and open systems where there is permeability. Patterns: of society, politics, aesthetics, science, disciplines, people. “How do you anticipate a future you haven’t experienced?” was a question that arose from trying to understand the multiple systems converging into the current economic crisis and the people affected; with the abstraction of statistics, we don’t comprehend the meaning of the data, the context, the realities of the actual people represented by numbers, formulas, and equations. This study segued into my “vagina” project— gender based crimes of war and domestic violence.

What Were They Like?

2009-05-17T17:49:00.007-04:00

It Was Reported Their Singing Resembled the Flight of Moths in Moonlight

2009-05-06T04:56:00.003-04:00

Titled from a line in the poem What Were They Like? by Denise Levertov

For All I Know, This Happens Every Night

2009-05-06T04:55:00.001-04:00

A Memory I Recognize, As Though We Had Been Children Together

2009-05-06T04:53:00.009-04:00

Titled from a line in the poem The Pond by Louise Gluck

Evidence That An Event Has Occurred

2009-05-06T04:50:00.001-04:00

Matrimonial Tallis: Never Greet Your Husband at the Door In Your Housedress and Rollers

2009-02-18T22:20:00.002-05:00

Orpheus: "You're Tougher Than I Thought"

2009-02-18T22:10:00.001-05:00

Starting from the top left, the tags read:

STORM / WHITE

MOSS / WHITE

CLAY / WHITE

FLINT / WHITE

BLACK / WHITE

Eurydice: "I Am an Instrument in the Shape of a Woman"

2009-02-17T22:04:00.001-05:00

2009-02-07T21:06:00.011-05:00

37 Main Street Narrowsburg, New York 12764

LISA STRIER

“ART OBJECTS”

MIXED MEDIUMS

FEBRUARY 21 – MARCH 14

OPENING RECEPTION

SATURDAY 2.21.09

2-4pm

http://www.artsalliancesite.org/programs/gallery.html

Homewrecker

2009-01-23T10:14:00.002-05:00

The Edge of One of Many Circles

2009-01-23T10:11:00.003-05:00

Title excerpted from Wallace Steven's poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Has Your Husband Come Home To The Right Woman?

2009-01-20T19:19:00.001-05:00

Silence, Exile and Cunning

2008-11-02T23:02:00.012-05:00

The Sweet Hell Within, The Unknown Want

2008-11-02T21:15:00.014-05:00

Title excerpted from Walt Whitman's poem — Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking

A Small Part of the Pantomime

2008-11-02T21:04:00.005-05:00

Title excerpted from Wallace Stevens's poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

From The Remembrance, The Desire

2008-09-21T20:30:00.002-04:00

This painting inspired by:

Long night: unable to sleep

The moonlight, how breakingly bright.

Callling, someone seems calling.

Into the empty air, I answer “Yes?”

—Anonymous (#4 of the Zi Yi series), translated by Wai-Lim Yip

The Joyous Is The Lake. The Clinging Is Fire.

2008-09-21T20:22:00.007-04:00

Full Title:

The Joyous Is The Lake. It Means Dropping Off and Bursting Open. Among Women it Means the Tongue and the Mouth. The Clinging Is Fire. It Means Helmets and Weapons. Among Men it Means the Big Bellied.

SOLD

We Can Get Behind

2008-09-18T18:38:00.003-04:00

Of The Ocean

2008-09-14T01:14:00.002-04:00

Arresting Spring—

2008-09-13T23:29:00.009-04:00

Click on image for a larger view

Oh,

2008-09-10T23:50:00.004-04:00

In Order to Seduce, the Gods Were Known to Take On Shapes Irresistible to Mere Mortals

2008-09-10T23:46:00.003-04:00

SOLD

Any Woman Knows What to Expect When She Gives Him the Best...

2008-09-10T23:39:00.006-04:00

MFA-Interdisciplinary Arts

2008-06-29T21:59:00.002-04:00

I've been accepted to Goddard College, Plainfield Vermont to pursue my MFA-IA!

I haven't been a college student in 25 years-yikes!

Lying is Done With Words. And Also Silence.

2008-06-28T19:30:00.004-04:00

Safe Haven of Pike County Poster

2008-06-28T12:08:00.002-04:00

ART-Thentic: Art Auction for Safe Haven of Pike County

July 12th at the Emerson House, Milford PA

Call 570.296.2827 for details

A Romance Like Water Running Down a Hill

2008-05-27T11:54:00.002-04:00

(legibility: click on image for larger view)

Provisional Anatomy

2008-05-27T10:26:00.004-04:00

(legibility:click image for larger view)

'Old Wives' Tales'

2008-03-23T15:38:00.005-04:00

Titles from L to R:

Creation Myth

Portrait of the Artist and Her Mother

Coffee, Beer & Girls

Their Lives At Any Moment May Float Away Like Feathers

2008-03-23T15:15:00.002-04:00

You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone

2008-03-23T14:07:00.000-04:00

(We Will Not Simply Decide to Hunker Down & Act As If We Aren’t Here) What Will Our Answer Be?

2008-03-04T22:54:00.003-05:00

It’s Almost Over and I’m Almost Home and I’m Scared That Maybe a Lucky Shot Will Get Me

2008-03-04T22:25:00.002-05:00

There's Not Much Difference Between a Swing and a Swat

2008-03-04T22:10:00.010-05:00

Titles from L to R:

She Was a Nice Juicy Girl When She Was Young. When

There are Two Types Of Women in America: Women Who, When They Become Mothers, Breastfeed Their babies; and Women Who, When They Become Mothers, Don't.

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