Artist's Statement:
My work operates in the slippage between discrete objects and installations, using materials drawn from the overlooked ephemera of our daily lives. I employ a myriad of familiar domestic items such as clothes, fabrics, zippers, buttons, shower curtains, drinking straws, paper products, and packaging as a means of combining content, color, and scale.
Since 2004, my focus has been large-scale mural installations and wall reliefs that highlight the intensely synthetic color and texture of all manner of disposable materials. I collect, reshape, and arrange these materials augmenting them with acrylic felt scraps, all organized around highly keyed and saturated color. Collecting and sorting is a process by which I seek to discover the inherent beauty in the gross overabundance of our packaging culture. By cutting these pieces down, I extract them from their marketed use and transform them into my own systems and building blocks of color, shape, and pattern. Working within a rectangular boundary, I construct layers upon layers to create a patterned density that contributes to an overall field of visual cacophony. Occasional breakouts from the frame serve as reminders of the uncontrollable addiction we have for consumerism.
Lisa Hoke - New York, New York 2024
