Statement

 

My work is informed by energy. Each painting is an interpretation of spiritual, emotional and psychological energies that are conjured in and around a specific event, memory or experience, real or imagined. My investigations of personal and collective narratives are futher activated with my body as performance art and my voice and original text in video works. 

 

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Biography

 

Lisa Diane Wedgeworth is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist employing painting, performance and video as creative processes to interpret energy as an investigation of personal and collective narratives.

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Recent exhibitions include Time Being (Wonzimer), Within a Realm (Tyler Park Presents), Incantation (Orange County Center for Contemporary Art) and the 24 hour performance, For Baby's Baby (Transformative Arts). She has been invited to perform at Williams College and Northwestern University and exhibited video at the Nan Rae Gallery (Woodbury University), the artist run space AWOL and at Spilt Milk (Edinburgh Scotland).
 

She is a recipient of the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship (2020), the Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship (2018) and the Georgia Fee Artist Residency (2016, France). She has lectured about her work at colleges and universities in both Southern and Northern California while teaching as a part-time lecturer at colleges and universities in Southern California. A cultural producer, Wedgeworth exhibited emerging artists in her studio-based project space PS 2920 between 2015 - 2016 and produces the public platform, Conversations About Abstraction to share the voices of abstract artists historically excluded from the Western canon.

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Her work is included in private collections and at the California African American Museum and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Recent acquisitions include the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and The Harper Museum.