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Lisa Anne Auerbach

Lisa Anne Auerbach

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58 years
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Biography

Lisa Anne Auerbach is an American textile artist, Zine writer, photographer, best known for her knitting works with humorous political commentary.

Education

  • MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, 1994
  • BFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, 1990

Biography

Born in 1967 in Ann Arbor, Michigan Auerbach currently resides in Los Angeles.

Career

Auerbach has been making knitted pieces since completing her undergraduate degree at the Art Center of Design in 1994. Photography was the discipline she studied for her MFA, however, due to lack of access to a darkroom, she used knitting as a cost effective way to make art.

Work

Knit works, zines, newsletters and a 5-foot-tall magazine titled American Megazine are all part of her body of work. Her Knitting patterns are often created digitally and created with a knitting machine. "While Auerbach's slogans and signs are politically blunt, her humor infuses the work with Subtlety, goofiness, mockery, and self-depreciation—sometimes all at once"

Major exhibitions

  • 2016 "Wasteland," Mona Bismarck Center and Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
  • 2015 "Parasophia, Kyoto International Festival of Culture," Kyoto, Japan
  • 2014 "Abstract America Today," Saatchi Collection, London, U.K.
  • 2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  • 2014 "Spells," Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2013 C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2012 "Chicken Strikken" Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
  • 2009 "Take This Knitting Machine and Shove It," Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
  • 2006 "Right On, Weatherman," CPK Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark

Projects and Works

Lisa Anne Auerbach's Body Count Mittens depict a gun with a date and a number that is the accumulative amount of American soldiers killed in Iraq. There is a different date and count on each individual mitten for the day knitting started on each. The instructions & the pattern for the mittens, along with a website for checking the daily American casualties, is listed publicly on a knitter's forum, allowing the public to make their own pair.

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