Lisa Lofgren is an American artist with a seeming fascination with Japanese culture. I was lucky enough to get to witness her art event titled Tethered World. The event was put on by both herself and professor William Ross. Lisa originally from Wyoming, but now works at a community college in Illinois and works on an organic vegetable farm, which has obviously inspired some of her works of art seeing she has a huge theme of nature. She mentioned having read about a form of art known as Japanese prints that really inspired her newest pieces of art, even though she has never actually been to Japan.
Her collection had an underlying theme of showing how we are attached to the world through very subtle human characteristics in her art without any "real" humanoid figures. They tend to have a rather abstract style, as she uses symbols to represent other physical traits. For example, one of her prints has a lot of different colored umbrellas flowing down the fabric, draped over a piece of hanging wood. The umbrellas seem to have a sense of flow to it, almost like a river. This kinetic movement is something that plenty of her other pieces shared as well, my personal favorite showed what looked like woman's hair flowing down the side once again, seemingly as a river.
Print work is not a new artform, it has existed for centuries in…show more content… The answer in my opinion is it fit quite well. Every single one of the hanging prints had a human connection in a much larger tone of nature. As I said earlier, she has a woman's hair flowing down like a river, or a window floating in the night sky, or umbrellas fluttering down from the sky, there are slight human touches everywhere. This is showing that in the grand scheme of the world we are a small minute detail, however we still exist in it and are a unique and interconnected piece in the
