Color and Craft with Artist Lisa Solomon

About this episode

Lisa Solomon discusses her artistic practice, hybridization, and the intersection of art and craft.

Lisa Solomon is a studio artist that moonlights as a college professor and illustrator/graphic designer. Profoundly interested in the idea of hybridization (sparked from her Hapa heritage), Solomon's mixed-media works and large installations revolve thematically around domesticity, craft, and personal histories. She often fuses "wrong" things together--recontextualizing their original purposes, and incorporating materials that question the line between ART and CRAFT. She also is focused on bridging the gaps between being creative, living creatively, and making a living as a creative.She received her BA in art from UC Berkeley and her MFA from Mills College. She has exhibited and works with galleries both nationally and internationally, is in numerous private and public collections, and is continually tweeking artworks in her backyard studio. She resides in Oakland, California with her husband, a teenager, two kitties, a three legged pit-bull, a dachshund mutt and many, many spools of thread. She is the author of - A Field Guide To Color - a workshop work-a-long watercolor journal on color theory and the follow up The Color Meditation Deck, a historical book on Crayola crayons…

People in this episode

Host: Erika b Hess

Guest: Lisa Solomon

Topics covered

• hybridization
• mixed-media
• craft
• personal histories
• art and craft
• creativity

Keywords

• Lisa Solomon
• art
• craft
• mixed-media
• creativity
• Oakland
• color theory

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CreativeBug, HardieGrant

Books & works: A Field Guide To Color, The Color Meditation Deck, Knot Thread Stitch, 20 Ways to Draw a Chair, Draw 500 Everyday Things, Art, Craft, Color

Places: Oakland, California

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