Artwork Artwork - Michelle Lisa Herman

Untitled (To Bear the Weight) #3

2024; Marble, Steel.

“Combinations” Series, Special Collaboration with Artist Robin Bell

2024; Giclée on luster paper Special collaboration at Artomatic 2024 with artist Robin Bell. A limited edition of prints are available to order until April 28, 2024. Prints are 20” x 16” and are $150 unframed or $400 framed. To

Constructions

“Constructions” Photo Series. 2024; Giclée on luster paper. A series of photographs focusing on physical disability and the built environment.

Untitled (Ideal City) #2

2023; Algorithmically generated source image, oil painted on linen using late 16th century painting techniques 24" x 49" This painting was inspired by a series of 15th-century paintings titled “The Ideal City” which predominantly feature architecture. I was struck by

Untitled (To Bear the Weight) #2

2022; Mixed Media Video Installation (Handmade paper building, digital video, projection mapping software, pico projector)

Untitled (To Bear the Weight) #1

2022; Video (Pixelcam footage transferred to digital)

Untitled (Ideal City) #2

Untitled (Ideal City) Study and in-progress painting by Michelle Lisa Herman

Untitled (Legs, Lips, Lines) #2

2021; Giclee print

Untitled (Legs, Lips, Lines) Series

Digital collage depicting a filmstrip of legs and a mouth with a tongue sticking out

Untitled (Legs, Lips, Lines) Series by Michelle Lisa Herman 2020, 2021; Giclée on Hahnemühle Rag Untitled (Invisible / Visible) #3 and the Untitled (Legs, Lips, and Lines) series were created in response to misogynistic advertising from the 1960s by a

Untitled (You Couldn’t Give My Talk For Me or Maybe You Could?)

2021; Virtual Performance

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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.