installation view, 365 C-prints
dimensions variable
C-prints mounted on plexi
detail
Iris Print
detail
"perfect/imperfect",
2002
Double-sided Digital Xerox Flipbook
2 3/8" x 4 5/8"
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2001-2003 installation view, 365 C-prints dimensions variable |
"Transcendent
Machine (toss #2)", 2002 C-prints mounted on plexi detail |
"Ornithography",
2000 Iris Print detail |
"perfect/imperfect",
2002 |
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Artist Statement
My recent work utilizes forms of serial narrative, documentary practice, and the collaging, codifying and indexing of visual “fragments.” I often select images that mark the passage of time to explore the interconnections between transience and definitions of the sublime.
My photographs begin as a type of note taking, a series of quick observations developed in "one hour" photo labs. I often juxtapose this “snapshot” approach toward photography with a carefully composed grouping of images, in order to reinforce both their differences and possible connections. Simultaneously, each image marks the intersection between photographer and subject at a specific point in space and time. The resulting works read as formal documents, a framing of my consciousness and observation, and as a series of ephemera that both mirror and reproduce the incomplete and transitory nature of “sublime” or “perfect” moments.
Lisa Young
Education
| 1996 | Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, New York, NY |
| 1991 | MFA, Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| 1986 | BFA, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL |
Exhibitions and Projects
| 2003 | Work
accepted into Pierogi Flat Files, Brooklyn, NY “perfect/imperfect,” artist book distributed by Printed Matter, New York, NY and Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario, Canada "My Mother’s An Artist,” Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, The Educational Alliance, New York, NY |
| 2002 | “Different
Class,” Debs & Co., New York, NY “Transcendence (Puffy),” artist project for Cabinet Magazine, Issue No. 6 |
| 2001 | “Brand New Prints,” Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY |
| 1999 | “Outer Boroughs,” White Columns, New York, NY |
| 1998 | “Cross Currents,” I Space, Chicago, IL and Macintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland |
| 1997 | “1997 Benefit,” Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1995 | “Bit
by Bit: Postphotographic Imaging,” Hunter College, New York, NY “The Abstracted Image in Photography,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1994 | “Negative
Energy,“ Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT “Boston Now,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA “11 Artists/11 Visions,” DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA |
Selected Bibliography
| 2003 | Umbrella,
“Perfect/Imperfect,” Volume 26, No. 1, May, editors, p. 17 NYArts/Berliner Kunst: International Edition, “My Mother’s an Artist,” June, Lori Don Levan The New Yorker, “Galleries-Soho: My Mother’s An Artist,” May 26, editors |
| 2002 | The New York Times, “Weekend Fine Arts: Chelsea Galleries: Different Class,” February 1, |
| 2000 | ARTNews, “Brand New Prints at Karen McCready,” December, Hilarie M. Sheets, pp. 158-159 |
| 1996 | The Village Voice, “Voice Choices: Lisa Young/Stroke,” April 9th, Vince Aletti |
| 1994 | The
New York Times, “In Hartford, Alive and on the Cutting Edge,”
November 20th, V. Raynor ARTNews, “On The Edge/Lisa Young: Planes, Air Balloons and Athletes,” May, N. Stapen, p. 176 |
ACollections
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence,
RI
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Neuen Museum Weserberg, Bremen, Germany
Contact
Information
Lisa Young
LYPuffy@hotmail.com