Lisa Rubin

Lisa Rubin is a Hispanic-American artist currently residing in Barcelona.

She was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Her mother is from Valencia, Spain, and her father is from the Bronx, New York, of Jewish descent.

This multiplicity of identities has long influenced her work, and she considers herself a global citizen.

Lisa’s father, Dr. Edward Rubin, is a prominent environmental engineer, and his work to mitigate climate change, as well as the general values of her family, helped stimulate Lisa’s interest in creating sustainable art.

Working primarily with mixed media and collage, Lisa creates reflective and complex compositions inspired by the natural world and its cycles, as well as the contents of her noisy brain.

The human psyche, the secret life of plants, and mythology are themes that come into play, coming to life through a layering of images and found objects that she encounters by chance.

Working with mixed media and collage allows her the freedom to tackle many themes, but she also follows her belief that art should be made from everything.

Most of her materials are recycled, discarded, or found.

Her work is immensely symbolic, with each component having not just one, but many reasons for being there.

After living in cities such as Pittsburgh, New York, and Barcelona, Lisa longed for natural surroundings but was also drawn to the dynamic nature of urban life.

Her work explores and rethinks both land art and urban art traditions, questioning current trends.

Why does land art tend to be abstract rather than narrative? Have we seen enough spray paint in our cities?

Her recent artistic adventures include a group urban art show, Windows Art Circuit, shown at Poblenou Open Day in Barcelona, and a simultaneous group exhibition in Lisbon and Berlin, titled Sensing the City.