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Lisa Solomon
Textiles Lecture Series
Wednesday, March 14, 7 pm
5301 Broadway, Oakland campus
Lisa Solomon's subtle work spotlights the notion of hybridization; it fuses elements that may at first glance appear to be unrelated. Initially, her interest in the hybrid as a liminal state was sparked by her mixed Japanese and Caucasian heritage, which exposed her to multiple cultural identities and practices.
As an artist, Solomon's strategy is to alter found objects so that their original meanings, uses, and intents are re-purposed. She fuses "wrong" things together like doilies hung on the wall or tanks made from bright pink felt. Her mixed-media works revolve around domesticity, craft, and masculine and feminine triggers, often subverting first-glance assumptions and offering open-ended, unexpected narrative twists.
She received her BA from UC Berkeley in 1995 and her MFA from Mills College in 2003.
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