Lisa Sheets

Lisa Sheets
Kenmore, Washington, USA

STATEMENT

Lisa Sheets’ mixed media analog collages explore history, gender roles, and cultural norms, and how these things impact our lives. Sheets uses combinations of religious and historical iconography along with pop culture images to stress the sacred in our modern day lives.

For several years now, Sheets has been examining our common thread of experience with the recent pandemic. Sheets wanted to document how we are connected to our ancestors who battled the 1918 pandemic, and the tangible impact the recent pandemic has had on all our lives. Her most recent body of work places a firm focus on hope, joy, and renewal, Sheets is now committed to emerging out of the disruption and trauma, to move towards a time that can be new, fresh, hopeful; a time of growth and reimagining.

Sheets uses a combination of found/recycled materials, along with digital copies of vintage photos gleaned from advertising, family albums, and historical databases, Sheets hand cuts, pastes, layers, transfers, and paints to create her one of a kind collages. Sheets often uses repetition and digital manipulation of source images to emphasize key imagery and create symmetrical compositions.

BIO

My background is in music, art and psychology. I earned a BA in Psychology and Art (sculpture and printmaking emphasis) with a minor in Music (flute) from Western Illinois University. Following that, I completed an MFA in cast metal sculpture at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. In the 1990s, I owned Smart Art Studio/Gallery in Pioneer Square, Seattle, and in 2000 I created an art resource for workshops and art studio rentals called Artspawn Studios in Woodinville, Washington. Since then, I have worked in collage, book arts, and printmaking.

I have exhibited in 27 states and 4 countries. My art is included in collections of the Cities of Kirkland, Redmond, and Mountlake Terrace, the State of Washington, University of Washington Medical Center, University of Washington Book Arts Collection, the Doug + Laurie Kanyer Art Collection, Schwitters’ Army Collection of Collage Art in Sanquhar, Scotland, Seattle City Light Portable Works Collection, Boise State University Special Collection/Archives-Albertsons Library, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC.

ARTIST CONTACT

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