Lisa Rubin is a Hispanic-American artist currently residing in Barcelona.<\/p>\n
She was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Her mother is from Valencia, Spain, and her father is from the Bronx, New York, of Jewish descent.<\/p>\n
This multiplicity of identities has long influenced her work, and she considers herself a global citizen.<\/p>\n
Lisa\u2019s 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\u2019s interest in creating sustainable art.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Most of her materials are recycled, discarded, or found.<\/p>\n
Her work is immensely symbolic, with each component having not just one, but many reasons for being there.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Her work explores and rethinks both land art and urban art traditions, questioning current trends.<\/p>\n
Why does land art tend to be abstract rather than narrative? Have we seen enough spray paint in our cities?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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