Lisa Sheets

Lisa Sheets
Kenmore, Washington, USA

STATEMENT

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

For several years now, my focus has been examining our common thread of experience with the recent pandemic. It was my goal 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. My most recent body of work places a firm focus on hope, joy, and renewal, I am 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. My newest series focuses on accomplished women from history.

My source materials include a combination of found/recycled items, along with digital copies of vintage photos gleaned from advertising, family albums, and historical databases, I hand cut, paste, layer, transfer, and paint to create one of a kind collages. I often use repetition and digital manipulation of source images to emphasize key imagery and create symmetrical compositions.

BIO

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

She has exhibited in 27 states and 4 countries. Her 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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