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Bold Journey Magazine
About the magazine:
Every problem or dilemma we face has been faced by countless others in the past and so we wanted to create a place to have conversations around those challenge.
Living life boldly means exposing yourself to all sorts of risk. In our view, one of the best ways to deal with those challenges is to learn from the stories and experiences of others.
The Art Installation Podcast
I am thrilled to have participated in this interview about my previous installation work! With some distance and a great interviewer (Anastasia!), I was able to reflect on this important time in my art career.
Authentic Obsessions Podcast
Interview discussion with Margret Petrie.
Listen here.
The English Room
Artist Spotlight series
Q & A with designer Nancy Hollingsworth Phillips
ahtcast: Artist Interview
Podcast interview with Phillip Mellon of ahtcast.com
Visionary Art Collective
“Finding Inspiration in the Simple Things”
Artist Interview
Canvas Rebel Magazine
Article: Taking a Risk
Artist Close Up
Interview
New Community TV
Artist Talk
Lost and Found
Curated by Jessica Straus
November 17 - December 30, 2022
The Umbrella Arts Center
40 Stow Street, Concord, MA 01742
New Community TV Artist Talk: watch here.
Artist talk with the Curator
“Nature Triumphs”
October 14, 2022
Five Points Arts
Torrington, CT
Listen here.
The Maine Arts Journal
Summer Issue, 2021.
Editors: Natasha Mayers and Nora Tryon
An article featuring my most recent work and how nature informs my studio practice.
Read more here.
Boston Hastle
by By Maryam Raad
“Went There: Surface Consumption at Gallery 263”
Finding Equilibrium in Exoression.
November 2018.
Read more here.
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Make Some Damn Art
Interview with Kate Singleton
April, 2019
Solo exhibition of Works on Mylar
Read more here.
Washington Post
"In The Galleries"
May 13, 2016
by Marc Jenkins
Although she’s also interested in architecture, Lisa Kellner doesn’t emphasize straight lines. The Maine artist’s “Always Into Now” transforms Target Gallery into something like a 3-D abstract canvas, or in her term, a “painting in space.” Visitors can walk amid the brushstrokes, which are actually swirls of gauzy silk hanging from the ceiling and walls. The palette is mostly peacock, indigo and ivory, and continues in the soft orbs attached to the floor. The painting’s frame — the room itself — is rectangular, of course. Kellner mimics the space’s right angles in the white lines and squares that punctuate the dark blue walls, and are sometimes highlighted by white fluorescent tubes. Yet the space is defined by softer, freer gestures. Kellner can’t demolish the wall between viewer and artwork, but she does a pretty good job of blurring it.
Lisa Kellner: Always Into Now On view through May 29 at Target Gallery, 105 N. Union St., Alexandria. 703-838-4565, Ext. 4.torpedofactory.org/galleries/target
East City Art Reviews
April, 2016
“Always into Now”
A full scale site specific Painting in Space.
at
The Torpedo Factory
Washington, DC
Read more here.
Ascent Contemporary
Interview, 2014
New York City
Read more here.
Misc Magazine
Online publication
Featured Artist
The News Tribune
Review, Seattle, Washington
2011
Site specific Painting in Space
Bellevue Arts Museum
”In the corner is Lisa Kellner’s gorgeous sea-life organism made of hundreds of red silk “polyps” that seem to creep across the room and multiply when the museum closes for the night.”
Textile Plus Magazine
Scandinavian publication
2012
New York Times
“Looking Into the World of Genomes and Seeing an Unreliable future.”
by
Benjamin Genocchio
2009
Read more here.
East Hampton Star
Review by Jennifer Landis
2009
Islip Arts Museum exhibition
"Ms. Kellner's graphite drawings take extreme close-ups of skin and imperfections such as moles and hair. They imply damage, whether it comes from outside, in the form of abrasions or too much sun, or inside, from aging or even cancer."
Sculpture Magazine
by Kriston Capps
2008
‘Here and Now’, Transformer Gallery
Washington, DC
Read more here.
Boston Globe West
Exploring The Material World,
Denise Taylor,
September 18, 2008.
For Lisa Kellner, the question is the role of facades, be they personal or political. In her Untitled, (The Emperor Has No Clothes) (which itself has a façade in the title), balloon like forms made of silk organza hang in the air in clumps. Together, they form a flimsy barrier, a façade that is both alluring for its lightness and colors, but repulsive for its dripping metastasizing cellular form – just like a lie that can dazzle at first but then grow awful and out of control. Behind them, the Senate building is outlined with the text of two political speeches.
“I’m not taking a particular political view”, said Kellner, who has studios in New York and Virginia. “I’m just expressing a general frustration with the political climate…where it seems that if you just say something eloquently enough and with emotion, then it doesn’t matter what you then do.
Washington City Paper
“Closed Call: Transformer wanted to comment on urban change. It came sooner than expected,
Maura Judkis,
May 20, 2008.
For artist Lisa Kellner, who was given the fourth floor for her installation, the decay of the building was analogous to the human body’s decline. Kellner consulted medical texts for her installation, Inner Sanctum, where cancerous polyps of bright silk organza dotted the walls and spilled out from cracks of exposed bricks and drainpipes. Clusters of hairs emerged from the pores she’s added to the wall inches away from where plaster came off in sheets. The effect was beautiful yet appalling – the architectural equivalent of smoker’s lung.
Art Scope New England
Hope M Stockman
2008
“Material Meditation”
Curated by Denise Driscoll
New Art Center
Newton, MA
Washington City Paper
DC Examiner
Falls Church Press
The Providence Journal
Site Specific Window Installation
Read more here.