Lisa Dillin
Primary Medium: Sculpture
Other media: Photography, Installation
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Website: http://www.lisadillin.com
Artist Statement
This work re-presents a mental landscape, an office-scape, used as a stand-in for contemporary culture at large. Stemming from an interest in the psychology of the contemporary individual as contrasted with the primitive psychology of man, this work offers a synthesis that highlights the latent tension between our former modus operandi and our current structured status. While this lifestyle transformation may be widespread, I focus on those living in a maximal built environment, cut off from the natural world. No longer residing in a subsistence-based setting where a reactionary attitude to our environment is part of our survival technique, we now plan for our survival in a construct based in politics and the economy.
Absurdity may be an element present in my work in it's futile attempt to provide a response to this predicament in the form of simulated nature. It is through this lens that my work investigates the tension between our past and out present modes of conduct.
Other media: Photography, Installation
n/a
Website: http://www.lisadillin.com
Artist Statement
This work re-presents a mental landscape, an office-scape, used as a stand-in for contemporary culture at large. Stemming from an interest in the psychology of the contemporary individual as contrasted with the primitive psychology of man, this work offers a synthesis that highlights the latent tension between our former modus operandi and our current structured status. While this lifestyle transformation may be widespread, I focus on those living in a maximal built environment, cut off from the natural world. No longer residing in a subsistence-based setting where a reactionary attitude to our environment is part of our survival technique, we now plan for our survival in a construct based in politics and the economy.
Absurdity may be an element present in my work in it's futile attempt to provide a response to this predicament in the form of simulated nature. It is through this lens that my work investigates the tension between our past and out present modes of conduct.
Selected Works
|  Window A - 2010 - Aluminum, formica laminate, fluorescent lighting - 42" x 62.5" x 4"  Under the Desk Escape Unit - 2010 - Found objects, mixed media, and video - 65" x 108" x 30"  Under the Desk Escape Unit (interior detail) - 2010 - Found objects, mixed media, video - 65" x 108" x 30"  Under the Desk Escape Unit - 2010 - Found objects, mixed media, and video - Variable  I'd Rather be Fishing - 2009 - Custom-printed ceramic - 4" x 5.5" x 3"  Award Plaque for H. Waldenford - 2009 - Laser-engraved brass, cherry laminate, MDF - 10" x 8" x .5"  Deer Boots - 2008 - Mixed media - 18" x 9" x 8"  Rock Chair - 2008 - Mixed media - 43" x 21" x 23" |
Artist Bio
Lisa Dillin
lives/works Brooklyn, NY
contact: lisadillin@yahoo.com more information: www.lisadillin.com
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Office Units: Surrogate Prototypes, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT
2006 Toy Brigade, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2003 Cotton Candy Cell, Maryland Art Place (MAP), Baltimore, MD
2001 Complications of Cages, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
2000 Cake, Halcyon Gallery/The Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
1998 Cake, Raymond Lawrence Gallery Annex, Tula Studios, Atlanta, GA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Nurture Art Benefit, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
Interface: Nature, Curated by Nina Horisaki-Christens, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY
Thaw, Lana Santorelli Gallery, New York, NY
Reality Gallery American Slide-All, New York Studio Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Beastiarium Vocabulum, Curated by Laura Amussen, Rosenburg Gallery at Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
Some Friends of Mine, Curated by Melanie Jelacic & Ryan Kelley, Fortgondo Compound for the Arts, St. Louis, MO
Grizzly Proof, Trinity Square Video Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Everything Must Go, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
2007 Red Saw Invitational 2007, Curated by Asha Ganpat, Red Saw Gallery, Newark, NJ
Fantasy World, Curated by Aimee Burg, Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY
My Private Utopia, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
Atlantic Avenue ARTWALK, Project Lot Curated by Jim Osman, Brooklyn, NY
Grizzly Proof, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
Crossing Disciplines/Furniture, The Rubelle & Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2006 2006 Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Cranbrook Science Fair, Cranbrook Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2005 Detroit Now, Museum of New Art (MONA), Pontiac, MI
2004 Xchange, Wayne State Community Arts Gallery, Detroit, MI
Starscape, G-Spot, Baltimore, MD
Annual Summer Juried Exhibition, Signal 66, Washington D.C.
Cupid's Broken Arrow, Chela Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2002 Annual Studio Tour, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
2001 MONUMENT: Cake Table (collaboration with Leyla Tas), Artscape, Baltimore, MD
Preview Party, Czigan and Rummel Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
Atlanta College of Art Juried Alumni Exhibition, Atlanta, GA
1999 Sowebo in Sobo, Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore MD
1998 Sync 3, Hill Auditorium, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
The Art of Recycling, City Hall, Atlanta, GA
Anti-Art Show, Gallery 310, Atlanta, GA
Bibliography
•Kristen Kendrick. “Thaw: Ha Rhim Kim and Lisa Dillin “, The Universal (itreallyreallyreallycouldhappen.blogspot.com), 2009
•Kate Noonan. “Human/Nature: Group Show Tries to Mine the Symbiotic Relationships Between Man and Beast”, City Paper (Baltimore), 2008
•Alex. “Beastiarium Vocabulum Opens @ Rosenburg Gallery”, There Were Ten Tigers Blogspot, Sept. 2008
•Stephanie Vegh. “You are Here: Journeys in Contemporary Art; Queen West District Toronto”, Map Magazine, Scotland, 2008, and “How to
Review Toronto's Art Scene in One Day or Less”, stephanievegh.ca/blog, 2008
•Melanie Blythe. “Grizzly Proof, Art Inspired by Peter Lynch's Project Grizzly and the Lovable Troy Hurtubise”, Uncoolkids.com, 2007
•Blake de Pastino, Bret McCabe. “The Year in Art, Top Ten”, City Paper (Baltimore), 2004
•Mike Guiliano. “Ooh, Baby. Thankfully, the Installations at Maryland Art Place are Both Juvinile & Delinquent” City Paper (Baltimore), 2003
•Jack Livingston. “Picks of 2000, Best One Person Show by a Young Artist”, Peek Review, 2000
•Atlanta College of Art Catalog, 1998
Education
2006 MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1998 BFA, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA