LISA KELLNER

"It’s mind blowing to see what artist Lisa Kellner is able to do with silk organza, thread, and various pigments. Her immense sculptures take the shape of varicolored cell structures and organ-like forms . . . and look almost as if they are floating weightlessly in fluid or underwater. "











(via I Need A Guide)

This installation began months ago with the daily recitation of the poem, “The Garden of Proserpine” by Algernon Charles Swinburne.  When I was asked to make a work for Space Invaders, curated by Karin Bravin, it was this poem that began to infuse itself into the very fabric of the piece. 

I relish taking a raw space, planning a work that will inhabit that space, and then watching the piece shift and change once I am actually in the space.  Though I make drawings and try to do much of the assembling before hand, there is always more required on site.  This is necessitated by the immersion of the work within its new environment.

I've tried to find information on the method she uses but her manipulation of these fabrics and dyes seems impossible to reproduce. These works seem  like underwater organisms that have floated to the surface. Really interesting and ethereal work.

(via artists website)