Kit Includes: tree stump /Recommended tools: drill with spade bits
Kit Includes: sticks, twigs, twine /Recommended tools: scissors
Kit Includes: cattail seeds, variety of marshgrass seed /Recommended tools: shovel, trowel, hose
Kit Includes: ripe pine cones, pine needles, soft soil /Recommended tools: trowel
Kit Includes: brush, twine /Recommended tools: scissors
Do-it-yourself kits to build shelters for extinct animals.
Signs for lost and found exotic pets. Posted in public spaces.
Shelters for extinct animals.
Lifelike replicas of juvenile alligators were installed in various locations throughout the city of Santa Clarita, CA on May 7, 2008. The alligators were moved to a new location every two hours.
Terrarium with lid ajar, habitat wallpaper, dirt, sticks, live crickets, Giant Bird-eating Tarantula care sheet.
Glass house with foreclosure sign, dirt and live ants gradually added over the course of a week
Gallery of empty shelves, title cards for sold insect terrariums (earwigs, roaches, woodlouse, moths, etc.)
Mutant Caterpillar
Exotic Plush Pets
shel·ter
1 a : something that covers or affords protection <a bomb shelter> b : an establishment providing food and shelter (as to the homeless) c : an establishment that houses and feeds stray animals
2 : a position or the state of being covered and protected <took shelter>
shel·ter·less \-ls\ adjective
-Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
Western culture is rooted in the belief that humans are the center of all things. Our needs outweigh the needs of the life forms below us on the food chain. My practice is driven by the problems and circumstances created by this idea.
My work investigates the ways in which we relate to the natural world. It asks us to consider the terms by which we draw and utilize the social and physical construction of boundaries that define and separate our living space as humans from the living space of plants and animals. It also challenges our knowledge of the natural world and the extent to which we can actually encompass and know all that lies within it.
Lisa is from Riverside, California. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Education
2009 Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. Art.
2005 Bachelor of Arts, University of Calfornia, Riverside, CA. Art History.
Solo Student Exhibitions
2009 "I just had to have one!", Gallery D300, CalArts, Valencia, CA. Feb.
2008 The Lost Collected, Lime Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA. Oct.
Group Exhibitions
2009 MFA Conversations: Part II, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Jul-Sept.
2009 Cal Arts MFA Grad Show, Spring Arts Tower, Los Angeles, CA. June
2008 Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY., Dec.
2008 Conventions and Attitudes, The Amie and Tony James Gallery, New York, NY.
2008 Conventions and Attitudes, Remys on Temple, Los Angeles, CA. Nov.4
2008 Cal Arts Mid-Residency MFA Show 2008, Mint Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA. Oct.
2008 Put Art in Stevenson Blanche, Stevenson Blanche Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA.
2008 Treading Lightly: One Foot At A Time, Clifford Gallery, Belfast, ME. Feb.
2006 How D'Ya Like Them Apples?, Sweeney Gallery, Riverside, CA. May.
2005 Pop!, Performance Lab, University of California, Riverside, CA. Oct.
Grants and Awards
2009 CalArts Project Grant, Thesis Show
2008 Ahmanson Project Grant
2008 CalArts Project Grant, Mid-Residency Show
2008 CalArts Project Grant
2008 California State University Summer Arts Scholarship
Bibliography
Coagula Art Journal, Spring 2010
Artillery Magazine, Fall 2009 Interview
lisa_lisamillerstudio.com
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