Lisa Kellner
2009 Swing Space Resident, 77 Water Street
Lisa Kellner makes work that mines the basic elements of identity. Her silk sculptures explore the nature of disease and cellular systems in relation to patterns of human behavior. Her work considers the role of the body in the discourse of the cultural object.
Lisa received her MFA from the Art Institute of Boston. She completed her undergraduate studies at the School of Visual Arts and Boston University. She has exhibited nationally including such venues as Transformer Gallery in Washington, D.C., The Islip Art Museum, New York, the Boston Young Contemporaries at 808 Gallery, Boston, and the Muscarelle Museum of Art, Virginia. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Sculpture Magazine. In September 2009, Lisa will install a large-scale site-specific piece at the Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, New York. The piece will continue to evolve over the course of four months. In December 2009, her work will be exhibited in a solo show, Suspended Presence, at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Michigan. Lisa lives and works in rural Virginia and Brooklyn, New York.
During the Swing Space residency, Lisa will develop and install her piece, A Proposition Ate My Marriage. This piece considers the institution of marriage and the ramifications of the law upon the reality of the experience.
