An integral part of my studio practice has been the creation and installation of works that are experimental, conceptual and not always commercial.

Im plant
2014 - 2009
A recurring floor installation
Hundreds of hand made pods mimicking blood cells, jelly fish and breast implants.
Exhibited in multiple locations since 2008;
© Lisa Kellner

Blank Canvas
2012
A conceptual installation using hand formed silk organza and embroidered text
Installed at Mary Baldwin college, Staunton, VA
© Lisa Kellner

Oil Spill II
2009
A site-responsive wall installation using 17,000 yellow-tipped quilting pins.
One of three;
Installed in Los Angeles, CA
© Lisa Kellner

Inner Urban Sanctum
2008
Installation in four rooms of an abandoned building.
Washington, DC
Curated by Transformer Gallery.
Reviewed in Sculpture Magazine.
© Lisa Kellner

Surfacing Beneath
2009
A site responsive installation installed over the course of six months as components were added to it.
The installation mirrored the effects of growing cell structures in the body.
Brooklyn Arts Council
© Lisa Kellner

Cameroon Croon
2010
Mannequin Hands, paint, raw grain
An installation about consumerism, food shortages and countries we know little about.
Installed in Brooklyn, NY
© Lisa Kellner

Repair
2014 - 2012
Silk, embroidered French knots
A private, public installation on a public library entryway.
One of several installations done during this period.
© Lisa Kellner

Ice Melt’s Tyrant Spell
2012
Installed in the stairwell of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.
2012 Biennial
An installation that addresses the melting of glaciers, the colors that are exposed and the impact of glaciers on our awareness.
© Lisa Kellner

A Proposition Ate My Marriage
2009
An exploration into Prop 8 in California and the fight to legalize gay marriage. This installation examines the role government chooses to play by invading the private spaces and lives of its citizens. As a supporter of gay marriage, I felt strongly compelled to create this installation. I embroidered past constitutional laws upon the silk canopy that first prohibited inter-racial marriage and then subsequently allowed it.

The wall drawing is a replica of the marriage certificate of Mildred and Richard Loving; an interracial couple who married in Virginia and were then arrested.. In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in their favor, striking down the Virginia statute and all state anti-miscegenation laws as unconstitutional, for violating due process and equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Installed at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Residency, New York City.
© Lisa Kellner

Family Portrait
2009
20,000 Yellow tipped quilting pins on the wall.
A wall installation that illustrates the typical wall of family photographs, except that one is slightly askew.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Swing Space Residency
New York, NY
© Lisa Kellner

The Walls Were Paper Thin
The Mansion Project
Curated by Anonda Bell
Thousands of cut newspaper “bricks”; custom made wood frame representing the floorplan of the “Mansion”

Newspaper has been historically used to insulate the walls of homes. For the Mansion Project, I made a piece using the mansion’s floorplan and recyclable newspaper “insulation”. The intent of this curated group exhibition was to call attention to the history and changes of certain neighborhoods in Newark, NJ.

Installed at Rutgers University, Newark, NJ.
© Lisa Kellner

Chamber One
A solo exhibition with a site responsive “Painting in Space”.
Installed In New York, NY
© Lisa Kellner

As Paintings in Space, one can enter into the “painting”, experiencing it from within.  These works are intended to be immersive. It is the viewers that become the final component of the work.  

Each installation is made by hand forming and painting hundreds, maybe thousands of forms and assembling them into one large piece. The final components are installed on site, directly responding to the space they are installed in. Each “Painting in Space” is a temporary installation. All that remains once the work comes down are the photographs I have taken.

Always Into Now
A Painting in Space
2015
Installed at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA
© Lisa Kellner

As Paintings in Space, one can enter into the “painting”, experiencing it from within.  These works are intended to be immersive. It is the viewers that become the final component of the work.  

Each installation is made by hand forming and painting hundreds, maybe thousands of forms and assembling them into one large piece. The final components are installed on site, directly responding to the space they are installed in. Each “Painting in Space” is a temporary installation. All that remains once the work comes down are the photographs I have taken.

Consume Me
9 Handmade silk bags, 9 pill bottles, 9 shelves, pills
Installed at Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Va

A wall installation that looks at society’s dependency on consuming and drugs.

© Lisa Kellner

The Seepage of Proserpine
A Painting in Space
Installed at Lehman College Art Gallery
Curated by Karin Bravin
Bronx, New York
© Lisa Kellner

As Paintings in Space, one can enter into the “painting”, experiencing it from within.  These works are intended to be immersive. It is the viewers that become the final component of the work.  

Each installation is made by hand forming and painting hundreds, maybe thousands of forms and assembling them into one large piece. The final components are installed on site, directly responding to the space they are installed in. Each “Painting in Space” is a temporary installation. All that remains once the work comes down are the photographs I have taken.

Oil Spill
60,000 Yellow Tipped Quilting Pins on custom made panel.
Installed as part of Conversions, Arlington, VA
Curated by Sam Gilliam.
© Lisa Kellner

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