In Lisa Stefanelli’s latest series, "Fighting Birds”, she/they uses uncomplicated, traditional materials to delve deeper into her/their exploration of relationships and human co-existence. Her/their work celebrates both the unity and conflict of the parallel lives we live as a population. According to Stefanelli, “My work always attempts to draw at least a bit of intangible fascination…such as trying to observe the movement of clouds, or smoke.”

Lisa Stefanelli is an artist living and working in New York City and Easton, Pennsylvania. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design and received her degree in 1989. She has been a practicing artist for the last three decades. “The underlying pursuit of my studio practice is to examine the possibility of being simultaneously involved and uninvolved in the complexity of all of our relationships, both animate and inanimate. Elements of the environments we inhabit—signage, sound/music, advertising, and popular culture (basically the cultural clutter of our lives)—are primary in informing the paths and trajectories of the works’ visual language. The work is elaborate and complicated while concurrently yearning to avoid the entanglements it embodies. And yet there is a joy in the confusion we live in. My practice chases that joy.” -Lisa Stefanelli (2019) Most recent solo exhibitions include Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, Penn, Pierogi Gallery, NYC, Robischon Gallery, and Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, California. She has work in the collections of the United States Department of State, Washington DC, The West Collection, Oaks, PA, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA, The Mondstudio Collection at the Kunstmuseum, Berne, Switzerland, The Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY and The Wynn Collection, Las Vegas, NV. A short video on this artist and her practice in her studio can be viewed at: http://bit.ly/2pNd9Da