Lisa Solomon
Instagram: @lisasolomon
Website: http://www.lisasolomon.com
Bio: Lisa Solomon is a studio artist that moonlights as a college professor and illustrator/graphic designer. Profoundly interested in the idea of hybridization (sparked from her Hapa heritage), Solomon's mixed-media works and large installations revolve thematically around domesticity, craft, and personal histories. She often fuses "wrong" things together--recontextualizing their original purposes, and incorporating materials that question the line between ART and CRAFT. She also is focused on bridging the gaps between being creative, living creatively, and making a living as a creative.She received her BA in art from UC Berkeley and her MFA from Mills College. She has exhibited and works with galleries both nationally and internationally, is in numerous private and public collections, and is continually tweeking artworks in her backyard studio. She resides in Oakland, California with her husband, a teenager, two kitties, a three legged pit-bull, a dachshund mutt and many, many spools of thread. She is the author of - A Field Guide To Color - a workshop work-a-long watercolor journal on color theory and the follow up The Color Meditation Deck, a historical book on Crayola crayons, Knot Thread Stitch, the Illustrator for 20 Ways to Draw a Chair and Draw 500 Everyday Things. She is also an instructor on CreativeBug.
Statement: Many years ago I was given a set of targets that had been shot.These targets sat in my drawers for a long time. The violence of the bullet holes frightened me immensely. One day it occurred to me that I should just mend them - that would counteract the horror and make them a beautiful object yet again.I decided to mend each target using a different colorway and different embroidery stitch. I long ago finished mending that original set, but with the never ending gun violence in this country I thought it was time to re-visit the series. I actually asked John Colle Rogers to shoot at another set of targets I was able to procure. I wish it was as easy to manifest gun reform as it is to make these bullet holes something less scary.
