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Artist Statement
I am an interdisciplinary artist, largely attracted to particular subject matter representations. I often use elements of performance, photography, video, film, printed media, and the internet in creating my work. It’s fruition begins with a desire to address particular types of subject matter. These concerns are directly connected to the media I select to work with and how they occur contextually within each piece. I am significantly affected by mass media imagery, gestures, and representations. I continually attempt to locate myself within this type of imagery, as a way of confronting it. I’m compelled to pull it apart, to read it like it’s own gestural form of language. A visual language embedded with cultural norms, structures, mythos, and engendered associations. Much of my work incites contradictions such as public and private, and good vs bad. They also imbue notions of social spaces, proximity, identity, intimacy, the body, and narratives present within figuration and represented gestures. I am very much influenced by second and third wave feminist art, and post- modernism as well as the processes of printmaking and digital media. Significant contemporary artist influences include: Pipilotti Rist, Judy Pfaff, Adrian Piper, Marina Abramović, Felix Gonzalez-Torrez, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Valie Export, Carolee Schneemann, Ida Applebroog, Ghada Amer, Martha Rosler, and John Cage. |
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Bio
Born in 1973, and raised in the Twin Cities. I was the first generation “off the farm” on both sides of my family. In 1993/1994 I attended the Minneapolis College of Art & Design [MCAD] as a Fine Arts Major, with emphases in painting and drawing. In 2007 I received a B.S. in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, with emphases in printmaking and sculpture. In 2008, I entered into the interdisciplinary graduate program at Vermont College of Fine Art [VCFA]. I received my M.F.A. in Visual Art from VCFA in 2010, with emphases in printmaking, contemporary practices (digital media, video, and installation), postmodernism, and feminist art. Juror’s Bio
Lisa Ulik is an interdisciplinary artist who often uses elements of performance, photography, film, and the internet as part of her process in creating imagery and objects. In her work she explores the language of gesture as it relates to larger stories about gender, culture, and proximity. She’s studied at MCAD in Minneapolis, UW-La Crosse (BS Art Education), and Vermont College of Fine Art, where she received her MFA in Visual Art. Her work has recently been shown as part of a collaborative exhibition in Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria and at the Brooklyn Museum.
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