Lisa Anne Auerbach (born 1967 in
Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American textile artist,
Zine
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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
*2019 "Libraries," Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
*2019 "Psychic Art Advisor," Frieze Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
*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
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, London, U.K.
*2014
Whitney Biennial
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,
Whitney Museum of American Art
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, New York, NY
*2014 "Spells," Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
*2013 C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition,
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery is located in the Barnsdall Art Park in Los Angeles, California. It focuses on the arts and artists of Southern California. The gallery was first established in 1954.
Main building
The Los Angeles Municipal ...
, Los Angeles, CA
*2012 "Chicken Strikken"
Malmö Konsthall
Malmö Konsthall is an exhibition hall located in the center of Malmö, Sweden. It is one of the largest exhibition halls for contemporary art in Europe.
Building
The hall was designed by architect Klas Anshelm (1914-1980), who was inspi ...
, 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 number 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 and 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.
Published works
* Lisa Anne Auerbach, Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2010
References
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American women artists
American textile artists
People from Ann Arbor, Michigan
1967 births
Living people
Women textile artists
21st-century American women
People in knitting