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Michelle Lisa Herman

Multidisciplinary Visual Artist

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Marble sculpture titled Untitled (To Bear the Weight) #3 depicting arms merging with architectural elements. — *Untitled (To Bear the Weight) #3*
2024; Calacatta Vagli Oro marble, steel.
28 x 13 x 14 in
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"Constructions" Photograph Series by Michelle Lisa Herman, "Construction #1" — Construction Series
2024; Giclee on fabric mounted to aluminum.
24” H x 18” W
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"Constructions" Photograph Series by Michelle Lisa Herman, "Construction #6" — *"Construction #6"*
2024; Giclee 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
24" x 49"
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*Untitled (To Bear the Weight) #2*
2022; Mixed Media Video Installation (Handmade paper building, digital video, projection mapping software, pico projector)
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*Untitled (To Bear the Weight) #1*
2022; Video (Pixelcam footage transferred to digital)
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A drawing of three red wacky inflatable men — *Untitled (How to Do Nothing)*
2022; Colored Pencil on Toned Paper
Purchased by the District of Columbia in 2022

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

Photograph of the "Heritage Wall" commission installed at the Lamond-Riggs/Lillian J. Huff Community Library. The image is predominantly red and inspired by a quilt showing illustrations of area residents. — *Heritage Wall, Commissioned by the DC Public Library system*
2023; Digital collage, scanned fabrics, hand-drawn illustrations View Project Page

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

"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

Drawing of "Last Judgment" sculpture depicting a blow-up doll on a Roomba — *Untitled (Last Judgment), Drawing*
2021; Mixed media on paper

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

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

"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)
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"Mask 3" by Michelle Lisa Herman — *Mask #3*
2013; Sumi-ink monoprint

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

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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Upcoming events in March, April, and May! March 11, 2025
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

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