Opening January 12, 2017: Emergency Eyewash / Tanja Grunert Gallery

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Emergency Eyewash (Carol Szymanski and Barry Schwabsky) with Lisa Blas, Judith Goldman, Siv Støldal, Tyrone Williams, and John Yau

January 12 – February 18, 2017
Tanja Grunert
524 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011

Tanja Grunert is pleased to present the exhibition debut of Emergency Eyewash, a conceptual “label” conceived by Carol Szymanski and Barry Schwabsky as a vehicle for collaborations using texts, imagery, and objects. In particular, Emergency Eyewash aims to open up space for language arts outside the medium of the book and the computer screen.

Full press release and installation images here:
Artpress: "Emergency Eyewash"

Emergency Eyewash With Siv Støldal, Untitled (Bee Ranger), text by John Yau, fabric unique, 2017

Lisa Blas / Tanja Grunert gallery / January 2017 / New York
Photography: Stan Narten

Lisa Blas / Tanja Grunert gallery / January 2017 / New York
Photography: Stan Narten

Lisa Blas / Tanja Grunert gallery / January 2017 / New York
Photography: Stan Narten

Opening: Lisa Blas / After lost space(s) / Kai Matsumiya gallery / Reception: Saturday, March 12, 2016

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Dear friends,

My exhibition "After lost space(s)" is now on view! Please join us for the closing reception on Saturday, March 12, 2016 at Kai Matsumiya gallery.

The show is up for one week only, Tuesday, March 8 - Sunday, March 13, 2016, as part of special programming entitled "Don't Make A Scene". Further information on "Don't Make A Scene" via Interview Magazine.

I look forward to greeting you!

Installation image: Lisa Blas "After lost space(s)" / March 8, 2016Photography: Brett MoenCourtesy: Kai Matsumiya / New York

Installation image: Lisa Blas "After lost space(s)" / March 8, 2016
Photography: Brett Moen
Courtesy: Kai Matsumiya / New York

“After lost space(s) is a project in collage and an installation of painted baseboards and door frames within the three gallery spaces at Kai Matsumiya Gallery. The work takes its inspiration from Guy Mees, Corita Kent, and nineteenth century photographers such as Adolphe Braun, Anna Atkins and William Henry Fox Talbot, and sets the stage where color, activism and the study of botanical specimens meet one another in collage and painting. Constructed on the axis of Guy Mees’s ephemeral works on paper and painting of architectural borders, Verloren ruimte (lost space), the gallery spaces at Kai Matsumiya and their “framing” are activated, along with references to geographical spaces that have disappeared. Typographical fields and images on vellum are united via horizontal and vertical architectural fragments of color, visible from room to room. The highlighting of painted baseboards and door frames functions like a pause, a comma, where the jagged and abrupt changes in the gallery floor plan are pronounced and echoed throughout the content of the collages themselves.”
— Lisa Blas 2016

Opening: Foundation Barbin Presents Redeux (sort of) / Kai Matsumiya Gallery / January 5, 2016

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Excited to participate in Foundation Barbin Presents: Redeux (sort of), opening tonight. Join us! 7 - 10 pm @ Kai Matsumiya Gallery
153 1/2 Stanton Street, New York, NY 10002.

January 5 - February 5, 2016
Organized by: Lucky DeBellevue
 

Image credit: Devon Dikeou "WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?" Foundation Barbin Presents Redeux (sort of), 1991: Ongoing. Lobby Directory Listing Artists, Gallery, Curators, Exhibition Titles, 18 x 24 inches.

Nov. 10th / Upcoming Lecture at Evergreen College, Olympia, Washington

Please join me on Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at Evergreen College for a talk in conjunction with the exhibition Sensations That Announce The Future. Lecture takes place at 10:30 am - 12:00 pm in the recital Hall of the COM (Communications) Lab, 2nd floor. Poster image: Lisa Blas

Lisa Blas / Open Studios 2015 @ Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts / March 3

Dear viewers & readers,

Greetings! I will be participating in the annual EFA Open Studios during Armory Week on Tuesday, March 3rd. Opening: 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm. It is a festive event with over 60 artists who will be participating, many of whom are friends and collaborators.

Join me for conversation and viewing of my recent projects at studio #608.

Hope to see you there!
Lisa

EFA Open Studios
323 W. 39th Street, #608
New York, NY 10018
(between 8th & 9th Avenues)

LISA BLAS
Headline, v. 2 (New Orleans), Acrylic on watercolor paper on Arches paper, 51 x 90 inches, 2015

 

Re-launch / lisablas.com

Dear visitors:

Happy New Year!

I'm pleased to announce the re-launch of my website, lisablas.com.

The new site features current projects, installations, exhibition documentation, earlier work and related audio, video and texts. As new projects are added in Current(s), the Resources and Researching(ing) pages will grow alongside them. These pages will include some of my research endeavors so as to provide a platform for sharing information between artists, writers, scholars, educators and historians. The News section will announce lectures, studio activities and exhibition projects, and act as a space of discussion linked to the above-mentioned platform.

With all that said, I hope you have a chance to peruse the site this winter. Thank you!

Until soon,
Lisa

Twitter: @lisablas

Studio portrait by Ariadne Rigas from the International Center of Photography, Imagemakers Program, New York, 2014.