LISA BULAWSKY

ARTIST STATEMENT: My vision, gesture, and ideas filter through my knowledge and experience as a printmaker. As a printmaker, I am a generalist and a blasphemist. While I am interested in the populist tradition in printmaking, in reproducibility and its democratic potentiality, I am equally interested in the uniqueness of the printed mark, its beauty, depth, and security in contrast with other marks and materials. In all of my work, there is a strong metaphorical quality to the combination of materials, images, and formal presentations in which elements blend, then threaten to contradict each other, setting up a paradigm that is rich, human, tense, restricting, and liberating all at once.

The subject of my work could fit under some droll and inclusive title in the humanities like The Psychology of Culture or Psycho-American Studies. I do consider my work to be reflective, if not diagnostic, of the human condition. I like to think that it functions as a kind of contemporary diagnosis of timeless social phenomenon. In particular, I have been investigating gender, stereotype, power, and limitation through a social and psychological lens, and with a sardonic edge. I like to play the straight man off the comic, the statement of fact next to the irony. The expression of these concerns takes different forms and launches from different platforms, as discreet works on paper, as installation, as temporary public project.

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