Lisa Sigal received her B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, her M.F.A from Yale University School of Art, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Award, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and an Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant.

Over the past few years, Sigal has been making multidimensional works consisting of roughly cut Sheetrock and panels of wood and cardboard, combined with found and collaged materials. These assemblages, placed flush with the wall or extending into the room, are conceived as surfaces for painting, Sigal's primary medium, and are monumental in size and scope.

Bridget Goodbody said, “Sigal’s work makes clear that how we live – in buildings – determines how we see. Behind the Walls, though made from panel and vellum screwed and taped to the wall, reads like an abstracted view of nature framed by architecture as a patch of feathery green paint suggests a tree nestled against a rooftop. In House Paint…Sigal turns things inside out so that art becomes a space we inhabit rather than simply observe.” (press release)

Lisa Sigal • PSU Monday Night Lecture Series
Mon • Feb 26 • 8:15p
510 SW Hall St • 5th Avenue Cinema Room 92