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Marble sculpture depicting hands including the artists hand with physical disabilities. — *Untitled (To Bear the Weight) #3*
2024; Marble, Steel. View project page

"Constructions" Photograph Series by Michelle Lisa Herman, "Construction #1" — *"Construction #1"*
2024; Giclee on luster paper. View project page

<em>Combinations Series</em></br>Special collaboration with artist <a href="https://bellvisuals.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robin Bell</a> — *Combinations Series*
Special collaboration with artist Robin Bell
2024; Giclée on luster paper. View project page

"Untitled (Ideal City) #2" by Michelle Lisa Herman — *Untitled (Ideal City) #2*
2023; Algorithmically generated source image, oil painted on linen using late 16th century painting techniques

*Untitled (To Bear the Weight) #2*
2022; Mixed Media Video Installation (Handmade paper building, digital video, projection mapping software, pico projector) View project page

*Untitled (To Bear the Weight) #1*
2022; Video (Pixelcam footage transferred to digital) View project page

Untitled (Ideal City) #1 by Michelle Lisa Herman — *Untitled (Ideal City) #1*
2022; Digital Print on Silk

"Untitled (A New Landscape)" Installation Documentation — *Untitled (A New Landscape)*
2021; Video Installation (digital video, projection film, projection mapping software) View project page

Untitled (I Can't Trust the Universe) installed at Harmony Hall in Fort Washington MD — *Untitled (I Can't Trust the Universe)*
2021; Mixed Media Installation (Digital collage, dye-sublimation fabric printing, digital embroidery, a found objects, house paint, floating screen, digital video, and video projection) View project page

Untitled (You Couldn't Give My Talk For Me or Maybe You Could?) - A Virtual Performance — *Untitled (You Couldn't Give My Talk For Me or Maybe You Could?)*
2021; Zoom thesis performance. Credits: Actor #1: Joe Walz (www.joe-walz.com) Writing, direction, editing, and Actor #2: Michelle Lisa Herman

Photograph of "Untitled (An Interstice)" by Michelle L Herman which depicts a rectangular box with a cloud-shaped cut out on each side that reveals a glowing, pulsating light underneath — *Untitled (An Interstice)*
2021; Mixed Media Light Sculpture (acrylic sheet, mirrored film, diffusion film, arduino, led lights, hacked baby nightlight, vellum, metal frame) View project page

"Untitled (Veil)" Installation Documentation — *Untitled (Veil)*
2021; Video Installation (digital video, projection film, projection mapping software) View project page

Detail photograph of "Untitled (Fragment)" depicting a partial face seemingly embedded in rocks and lit by purple lighting — *Untitled (Fragment)*
2021; Mixed Media Installation (3d printed resin, Thibra, spraypaint, rocks)

Making the Invisible Visible, 1 by Michelle Lisa Herman — *Untitled (Invisible/Visible) #1*
2020; MDF, 3D printed resin, epoxy putty, chromakey paint

Making the Invisible Visible, 2 by Michelle Lisa Herman — *Untitled (Invisible/Visible) #2*
2020; MDF, 3D printed resin, epoxy putty, chromakey paint

Making the Invisible Visible, 3 by Michelle Lisa Herman — *Untitled (Invisible/Visible) #3*
2020; MDF, 3D printed resin, epoxy putty, paint
Purchased by the District of Columbia in 2023

Untitled (Legs, Lips, Lines) #1 2021; Giclee print — *Untitled (Legs, Lips, Lines) #2*
2021; Giclée on Hahnemühle rag

Digital collage depicting a filmstrip of legs and a mouth with a tongue sticking out — *Untitled (Legs, Lips, Lines) #1*
2021; Giclée on Hahnemühle rag
Like this piece? It is available as a pattern on a variety of websites. Check out the patterns page for more information

Untitled (Cube) by Michelle Lisa Herman — *Untitled (2020)*
2020; Resin, found object

Photograph of the book "Let's Talk Art" — *Let's Talk Art*
2020; Digitally printed artist's book (written in collaboration with machine learning software). View project page

Sculpture "Untitled (Last Judgment)" by Michelle Lisa Herman — *Untitled (Last Judgment)*
2019; Found object kinetic sculpture (Roomba, Blow up doll, Heat gun, Wifi, Google Calendar)

Video Untitled (Hips Like Yeah) by Michelle Lisa Herman — *Untitled (Hips Like Yeah)*
2019; Mixed Media Video Installation (Digital video, found objects).

Untitled (Technology / Transformation) by Michelle Lisa Herman — *Untitled (Technology / Transformation)*
2019; Mixed-media kinetic sculpture (3D printed resin, found object, mirrored acrylic).

"Untitled (15:56 and 4:33)" by Michelle Lisa Herman — *Untitled (4:33 and 15:56)"*
2019; Digital video (Audio Waveform of John Cage's "4:33," contact microphone, laser engraver)
View project page

"Untitled (Click / Breathe)" Video Installation Documentation by Michelle Lisa Herman — *Untitled (Click / Breathe)*
2019; Mixed media installation (Found poster of a blank billboard, video, audio, projection mapping software) View project page

"Untitled (Haunted Fish Tank)" — *Untitled (Haunted Fish Tank)*
2019; Digital video using found Youtube videos.

"Untitled (You Used to Call Me on My Cellphone)" Demonstration of Audio in Installation, 2018 — *Untitled (You Used to Call Me on My Cellphone)*
2018; Mixed-media Installation (plaster, aluminum cans, string, arduino, and speaker)

"Tether" by Michelle Lisa Herman — *Untitled (Tether)*
2017; Mixed-media Interactive Installation (3-D printed ceramic, led lights, arduino, laser, wire, and diffusion film, acrylic, mdf, sumi ink, paper) View project page

"Affectionate Device 1" by Michelle Lisa Herman — *A Series of Affectionate Devices #1*
2017; 3-D printed ceramic, led lights, wire, and diffusion film

Interactive Installation — *Invisibility*
2014, 2015, 2016; Mixed Media Installation (3-D printed ceramic, led lights, wire, and diffusion film))

"Mirror Mirror," Version 2, Video Documentation — *Mirror, Mirror*
2014, 2015, 2016; Interactive Video Installation (video clips, Raspberry Pi microcontrollers, webcam) View project page

"Social Network," Version 2, Video Documentation — *Social Network*
2011, 2012, 2013, Interactive Audio Installation (plaster, resin, arduino, PIR sensors, Max MSP, computer, speakers, and audio equipment) View project page

"Sad Bear," Video Documentation — *Untitled (Sad Bear)*
2016; Interactive Sculpture (found objects, wood, arduino microcontroller, bicycle pump, ultrasonic sensor, acrylic)

"Virtual Window " by Michelle Lisa Herman — *Virtual Window*
2011, Mixed Media Installation (projector, projection film, window, live video feed, false wall)

"Love Letters" Audio Sculpture by Michelle Lisa Herman — *Love Letters (Language is a Virus)*
2010, 2011, 2012, Mixed Media Sculpture (modified telephone, MP3 player, and audio recording)
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Installation, A.R.T. Applied Research & Technology — *A.R.T. (Applied Research & Technology)*
2008, Mixed Media Installation

Artwork

Conceptual, new media, video, and other artwork by emerging interdisciplinary artist Michelle Lisa Herman located in Washington, DC

Michelle Lisa Herman is a Washington, DC-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans theoretical and philosophical research, feminist and disability politics, comedy, and conceptualism. Herman has shown internationally in both group and solo exhibitions at locations such as the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), Cinéma du Foyer Saint-François (Bourges, France), the Corcoran (Washington, DC), The Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), Goggleworks (Reading, PA), Hillyer Art Space (Washington, DC), Arlington Art Center (Arlington, VA), Visarts (Rockville, MD), and the Washington Project for the Arts (Washington, DC). Herman’s work has been written about and featured in Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, The Washington Post, NPR, and East City Arts. Herman is an alumna of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MFA, 2020) and the Sparkplug artist collective sponsored by the DC Arts Center.

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Artomatic and Open Studios Plus Upcoming Exhibitions April 8, 2024
Lamond-Riggs Lillian J. Huff Community Library Heritage Wall June 30, 2023
Save the date: June 27 Heritage Wall Unveiling June 2, 2023
Come Visit Me at Red Dirt Studios on May 13 April 12, 2023
New Artwork! February 27, 2023

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