Lisa Bell Weisdorf

Statement

Born in Toronto, ON, Canada

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Lisa Bell Weisdorf is a multidisciplinary artist working in digital media, video, sculpture, and installation. Driven by a desire to both understand and shape her historical conditions, her conceptually-grounded, research-driven practice endeavors to triangulate the relationship between the virtual, physical, and social fields.

Using an analytical approach informed by her educational background studying media theory, as well as her professional experience working as an archival researcher for documentary cinema, she employs formal tactics of appropriation and détournement in order to tease out the repressed inconsistencies of myriad cyber-cultural apparatuses and representational systems.

Particularly concerned with issues of gender, beauty, and the disciplining of feminine excess, her art interrogates the ways in which contemporary technology dispossesses, structures, and (re)produces our experience as subjects, and asks what it means to be an artist in a post-optic regime.

GlogauAIR Project

During her time at GlogauAIR, Lisa Bell Weisdorf plans on developing a series of sculptures based on a number of visually cryptic beauty implements currently available on the market. She will make molds and casts of these pseudo-scientific commodities, experimenting with the ways in which material might be able to transform their meaning.

CV Summary

Education

• MFA in Multidisciplinary Studies, Mount Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA, May 2020
• BA in Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, May 2010

Group Exhibitions

• MICA Grad Show III 2020, Baltimore, MD, USA
• badideas69@yahoo.com, Mount Royal School of Art Fall Show, Baltimore, MD, USA
• Timonium (none of us like each other), Mount Royal School of Art Fall Show, Baltimore, MD, USA

Awards

• Maryland Institute College of Art Graduate Scholarship, Baltimore, MD

Additional Experience

• Archival Producer, Associate Producer, Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dir. Sara Driver, New York, NY, USA, 2015 – 2017
• Archivist, Gimme Danger, Dir. Jim Jarmusch, New York, NY, USA, 2015 – 2016

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