Lisa Sacco

I think of this work as an attunement to material:  natural and industrial, raw and processed. Simple yet complete gestures serve as both encounters and confrontations within our system of design and use of everyday objects.  Calculated intervention allows me to bend meaning, usurp convention and allow objects to speak for themselves.  For me, proximity to material prompts a higher level of inventiveness amplifying my intent.  Object presence and careful crafting fuse art historical and cultural references through material selection.   Each piece presents a coupling or collision of materials: wood and stone, glass and steel, old and new; which probes these intersections, raising questions without being doctrinaire.