THE FORAGER SERIES by artist LISA STEFANELLI is about visual acknowledgement of an object that resides in one specific location at one particular moment. In the 2010’s Stefanelli began a digital practice deriving concepts of the natural world and integrating them directly into a visual platform. The primary concept being that all action taken, either through human behavior or human interpretation, have direct natural origin.

Series Statement The FORAGER pieces are titled as identification. For instance, “18042” is the postal code of the location where the object was “found” or “foraged.” “1/2017” is the date. Foraging is the act of obtaining food or provisions (from a place). This series forages for objects for the purpose of identifying the vast landscape on a small, pixel-sized level. It is so specific that the object is documented at that time and place only. The natural world is ever changing, both seasonally and globally. Landscapes change, sway, and alter according to elements that have simultaneous minute and infinite parameters. If we reduce any and every object to a pixel-sized moment of identity, we understand that the world hinges upon the smallest and most specific details imaginable—or unimaginable as the case may be. Artist’s Statement 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. ABOUT THE ARTIST 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. Stefanelli's 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