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LISA K BLATT
Corruption
bruno david gallery
LISA K BLATT
Corruption
September 7 - October 28, 2023
Bruno David Gallery
7513 Forsyth Boulevard
Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, U.S.A. info@brunodavidgallery.com www.brunodavidgallery.com
Founder/Director: Bruno L. David
This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition “Corruption” at Bruno David Gallery.
Editor: Bruno L. David
Catalogue Designer: Kenya Mitchell
Designer Assistant: Claudia R. David
Printed in USA
All works courtesy of Lisa K Blatt and Bruno David Gallery
Photographs by Bruno David Gallery
Cover image:
Untitled (Corruption series), (detail) 2023
Archival pigments on EPSON Ultra paper
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Copyright ©2024 Lisa K Blatt and Bruno David Gallery
All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the written permission of Bruno David Gallery
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
BY BRUNO L. DAVIDCHECKLIST AND IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION
BIOGRAPHY
PROLOGUE
BY BRUNO L. DAVID6
I am pleased to present, Corruption, an exhibition by San Francisco-based artist Lisa K. Blatt. This is the artist’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery. Blatt states “Landscapes attract me with their light, beauty, simplicity. I stay for their darkness, complexity, and secrets.”
The Corruption series focuses on a body of works that are dizzyingly beautiful and deceptive as systems secretly (at first) go haywire. What first appears beautiful and functional may not be when one digs beneath the surface; whether it’s a camera system, a language system, a computer system, a food system, an ecosystem, or a democratic system.
These landscape image files are corrupted. Each file initially appears normal, then when one clicks on the image to open it, it appears corrupted. None were manipulated. There is no way to predict which will be corrupted or how they will appear. The works explore how landscape may be defined by what is not visible, what is memory, or what is trace. Referencing historical landscape photographers, light and space artists, and pop culture (even including different colored landscapes in video games), these works consider perceptually how we see and how site and sight are mediated by culture, media, and politics.
Lisa K. Blatt lives and works in San Francisco and often camps and shoots in remote extreme landscapes (Antarctica, Chile, Iceland) as she examines perception (both how and what we see) and social and political issues. Blatt’s work has been exhibited on six continents including at the Shanghai Biennial, China; the Havana Biennial, Cuba; Museo de Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Iceland; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Contemporary Art Platform and Freud Museum, London; Kunstverein Haus, Germany; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland; and Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; and Phillips Collection.
She has been awarded many grants and residencies including from: the National Science Foundation (Antarctica), NASA and Carnegie Mellon, the Kitteredge Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, The Center for Cultural Innovation Creative Capacity Fund Grant, and the Djerassi Foundation.
Support for the creation of significant new works of art has been the core to the mission and program of the Bruno David Gallery since its founding in 2005. I am deeply grateful to Kenya Mitchell, who gave much time, talent, and expertise to the production of this catalogue. Invaluable gallery staff support for the exhibition was provided by Jenny Rong, Hazel Tao, Kenya Mitchell, and Jada Ivy.
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LISA K. BLATT
Lives and works in San Francisco, CA
EDUCATION
MFA, New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Corruption, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2022
Corruption, Bruno David Gallery, (New Media room), St. Louis, MO
2016
TBD, National Science Foundation, Christchurch, New Zealand
Antarctica (working title), National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA
2015
New Work, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
The Speed of Light, Brower Center Gallery (two person show), Berkeley, CA
Antarctica (working title), National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA
2014
spinning on the enola gay runway until I make myself sick, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
spinning on the enola gay runway until I make myself sick, Contemporary Art Gallery, Southeast University, Hammond, Louisiana
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2012
i am the enola gay, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2011
Desert Water, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2009
Polar Extremes, Photography Museum of Reykjavik, Reykjavik, Iceland
Under Cover, Mt. Comfort Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2008
Night Light+, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, UT (-2011)
New Work, Snowmass Center, Snowmass, CO
Untitled, Equal Justice Society, San Francisco, CA
2006
Night Light, project space, in conjunction with group show “Particulate Matter”, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
curated by Glen Helfand
2004
untitled, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Interruptions, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
OVERVIEW_2023, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2022
Paul R. Jones/Emory University (working title), Atlanta, GA
OVERVIEW_2022, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2021
Untitled, U.S. Embassy, Turkey
Blanche/Blanc, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Reimagining Hope, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO
A Spirit of Disruption, Walter & McBean Galleries, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
OVERVIEW_2021, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Alternative Process, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, CA
5th Anniversary Show, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2020
Untitled, U.S. Embassy, Turkey
OVERVIEW_2020, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Quarantine, Minnesota Street Project (online show)
2019
SIA, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco, CA curated by Tom Marioni
OVERVIEW_2019, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
IMAGES 2019, Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA juried by Jack Fulton
Prize: awarded Honorary Mention
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2018
10,000 Fahrenheit, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
Minnesota Street Project (juried), Ascent, San Francisco, CA
Thekla, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Small is Beautiful. Art as if Artists Mattered, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2017
For Freedoms, Aperture Foundation (jurors include Hank Willis Thomas & Eric Gottesman (For Freedoms)), New York, New York
Detritus, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Intergalactic Dreaming, San Diego International Airport, San Diego, CA
PHENOMENON, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California
Abstraction, Whatcom Bellingham National Museum, Bellingham, WA
(juror: Catharina Manchanda, Chief Curator Seattle Art Museum)
Inside Out/Outside In presentation/performance at McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
OVERVIEW_2017, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
San Francisco Art Book Fair, Bass & Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016
Intergalactic Dreaming, San Diego International Airport, San Diego, CA (2016-2017)
San Francisco Art Book Fair, Bass & Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Open Engagement-Power, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2015
Night Begins the Day, Space, Time and Beauty
Contemporary Jewish Museum (with book), San Francisco, CA
Artillery Contemporary Art Influenced by Weaponry, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Mesa, Arizona
Oceans, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
Land Mark Show, Center for Contemporary Arts (juror: Grace Kook-Anderson, Contemporary Art Curator, Laguna Art Museum) Sante Fe, NM
Art Show Vol. 10, The Battery, San Francisco, CA
Bearing Witness: The Meaning of Surveillance in the Age of Drones, Ft. Mason Art Space, San Francisco, CA
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2015
Art Night SF, Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Concentrate, Diego Rivera Gallery (juror: G. Williams), San Francisco, CA
2014
Five Year Anniversary Show, Evergold Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Untitled, South Arkansas Arts Center (juror Dayton Castleman, 21c Museum), AS
Paraphrase, Cannery Gallery, Bridges Conference (juried), San Francisco, CA
2013
Eiskeller Und Himmelslocher, Kunstverein Haus 8, Kiel, Germany
Proximities: What Time is it There? Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
8th National Show, Axis Gallery, (Juror: Glen Helfand), Sacramento, CA
untitled (clearest lake in the world), Steven Wolf Fine Arts, ArtPad Art Fair
San Francisco, CA
ArtRomp Anacostia, Anacostia Art Center, Washington, DC
Sierra Fund ART OnSite Tribute Trail, Nevada City, CA (Jurors: Bill Fox, Renny Pritiken, Kathryn Reasoner)
2012
Surpolar Arte en Antártida, Museo de Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dust in the Machine, Center for Contemporary Art, Sante Fe, NM
MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Mutual Friends, Present Company, Brooklyn, New York
Living in Studio Kuchar, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco, CA
Blue-White-Red Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
I am Crime, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2011
Lost in Space, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2011 WPA Experimental Media Series, Juror Paul D. Miller, aka
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2011
DJ Spooky, Washington, DC Screenings include:
Phillips Collection Museum, Washington, DC
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD,
HYPERLINK “http://www.sehcommunity.org/” St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Auditorium Washington, DC ,
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD
Harris Hall, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
The Ibrahim Theater, Philadelphia, PA
Surveillance, Performing Arts Institute, San Francisco, CA
The Feel of the Water, Krowswork Gallery, Oakland, CA
US, Peoples’ Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Thanks Any/Way (juried) Tin Barn Vineyards, Sonoma, CA
2010
Sound Design for Future Films, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Front + Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Remote, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC
Slow Art, McMurdo, Antarctica
Recession Rejuvenations, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Denizen, LoBot Gallery, Oakland, CA
Ice Labyrinths (Antarctica), The Stone, New York, NY
2009
Kat A4, Galleri Box, Gothenburg, Sweden
Air Cube+ LAnd/Art, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Desert Sexy, The Constant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Antarctica, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA
Places Like Us, Red Line Gallery, Denver, CO
20th Anniversary, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC
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2009
Illuminated Corridor, Middle Harbor Shoreline Park, Oakland, CA
Annuale, juried by Trevor Schoonmaker, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
Moab Video Project, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Invisible Homes, SomArts, San Francisco, CA
2008
Sound Design for Future Films, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
New Work, SIM Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Anderson Ranch at AAM, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, juried by: Laura Hoptman, Senior Curator, New Museum (NY), Dan Camer on Director of Visual Arts at New Orleans’ Contemporary Arts center, Lauri Firstenberg Director/Curator of LA ART (Los Angeles)
Water, Garage Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Surreal Systems, Gallery Homeland, in conjunction with Portland International and eXperimental Film Festival, Portland, OR
Garage Biennale: Weather Reconnaissance, Garage Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Work, Gartner Gallery, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO
100 Performances in the Hole, Garage Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Over View 08, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2007
Shanghai Biennial: Animamux: from Modernity to Eternity, 2nd Annual
Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Recognise Contemporary Art Platform, London, England
Paranoia Freud Museum and Program Gallery, London, England
Crimes and Splendors, Ronmandos Gallery Amsterdam, Holland
Scope Miami, Civilian Art Projects, Miami, FL
It Can’t Happen Here, Work/Sound Gallery, Portland, Oregon
The Gun Show, curator Selene Foster, Root Division San Francisco, CA
Group Show, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC
Close Calls, Headland Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
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2007
Warehouse Gallery, Washington, DC
New video by Lisa K. Blatt, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Night Light, House of Hengst Gallery, San Francisco, CA
CMC Faculty Show, CMC Gallery, Aspen, CO
3 Minute Film Festival (screening), Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2 x 2, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006
Tea Light III, Oslo, Norway
Paranoia: Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England
Focal Point Gallery, Southend, England
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England
Proyecto Circo, 8th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
WPA\C Experimental Media Curated by Peggy Parsons, Chief Curator, Department of Film Programs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC at Corcoran Gallery, DC
National 2006, Juror Rene de Guzman, Chief Curator, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Marin Society of Arts, Marin, California (merit award)
Claim the World of Art as Our Domain, juried by Michael Wilson, Associate Editor Artforum, Pro Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Landscape as Escape, Viridian, Washington, DC
Cream from the Top, top recent MFA graduates, Arts Benecia, Benecia, California
Warehouse Gallery, Washington, DC
Phantom Gallery Artists, Studio 41, Butte, Montana
The Magic Show, Garage Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The, There, There, Curator: Craig Goodman, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Death by Tealight VI video screening, ATA, San Francisco, CA
Magic, Garage Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Death by Tealight V video screening, ATA, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, MFA Show, San Francisco, CA
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2005
New Works in Video, curated by María del Carmen Carrión, Quito, Ecuador
Random Mapping of San Francisco , NoD Gallery, Prague
Video art screening, Burundi Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Introductions 2005 Jurors: Jack Hanley, Catherine Clark ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
GenArts New Fangle New Media Artists, San Francisco, CA. Curators: Tony Labat, Artist & Chair, New Genres Dept, San Francisco Art Institute, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Professor, Cornell University
Jennifer McCabe, Program Director, New Langton Arts, Shirley Shor
New Photography, Baxter Chang Patri Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Photo SF, San Francisco, CA
Photoo: The Subvention and Subversion of Photography, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Curators: Nina Zurier and Pamela Wilson
Tea Light III Video Screening, Artist’s Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Group Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, Fall, 2005
Fog Food, DeYoung Art Center, curated by J. Mortara, San Francisco, CA
Minimalism and Beauty, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Romp 18, Warehouse, Washington, DC
San Francisco Art Institute Juried Auction, SomArts, San Francisco, CA
Ephemeral Feminine, Cell Space Curator: Modou,Dieng San Francisco, CA
Oakland Art Gallery Juried Auction, San Francisco, CA
2004
New Video, Valenzuela y Klenner Gallery, Bogota, Colombia
Unframed First Look, Jurors: Cindy Sherman, Adam Fuss & Jack Pierson.
Sean Kelly Gallery, Chelsea, NY
Ambush, Van Brunt Gallery, Juror: Trong Nguyen, New York, NY
Murphy Fellowship Awardees, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
WPA\Corcoran SELECT II: Art Auction Curator: Paul Roth, Associate Curator of Photography and Media Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Photo NY: Richard Morehouse Gallery
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2004
Oculus Photo, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Arthritis Foundation Art Auction, Washington, DC Juror: Paul Roth, Associate Curator of Photography and New Media, Corcoran Art Museum, Washington, DC
Alternatives Show, Cell Space, San Francisco, CA
Roxie Cinema video screening curated by Hans Winkler, San Francisco, CA
Off-Site Exhibit, collaboration, 3rd Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
In the Himalayas, Philippe Bonnafont Gallery, curated by Linda Connor, San Francisco, CA
Video, Garage Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003
Proyecto Circo, 8th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Juried Annual, Juror: Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, ”Matrix” Curator Berkeley Art Museum, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Solstice Exhibition, BC Space Gallery, Laguna, CA
Crash, Juror: Anthony Discenza, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Big Deal X, Visual Aid, San Francisco, CA
Oculus Photo Folio, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Homeland Security Show, Abco Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Untitled, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
California State Fair Fine Art Exhibit (Award), Sacramento, CA
Nevada Plus, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Juried Show, Artist’s Museum, Washington, DC
2002
Juried Show WPA\Corcoran Juror: Chan Chao, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2001
Studio 7/Warehouse Theater, Washington, DC
Juried Annual, Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, VA
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1999
Juried Annual, Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC
Juried Annual, Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, VA
1997
Inaugural Exhibit, Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, Washington, DC
Juried Annual, Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, VA
AWARDS AND HONORS
2015
Anderson Ranch Arts Center selected for Artist-in-Residence (for 2016)
2014
Anderson Ranch Arts Center selected for Artist-in-Residence (unable to attend, teaching)
2013
Creative Capacity Fund Grant
Pilchuck 2013 John H. Hauberg Fellowship
Center for Land Use Interpretation (Wendover) Artist-in-Residence
2012
The New Stars of Photography, Cindy Sherman chooses Lisa K. Blatt (including Cindy Sherman essay about Blatt) Smithsonian Magazine, March 2012
City of San Francisco’s nominee for Taipei Artist Residency
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Award nominee
Center for Land Use Interpretation (Wendover) Artist-in-Residence
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2011
San Francisco Artist Award Nominee
Center for Land Use Interpretation (Wendover) Artist-in-Residence
2010
Fleischaker Eureka Nominee
Oxbow School Visiting Artist in Residence
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Award nominee
2009
Djerassi Artist Residency, Woodside, CA (for 2010)
2008
National Science Foundation Antarctica Artists and Writers Grant
SIM Iceland Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland
Bay Area Now Five Nominee for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Anderson Ranch Arts Center Artist-in-Residence and scholarship
2007
Biz Art Affiliate Shanghai, China
Island 6 Art Residency Shanghai, China
NASA Artist-in-Residence Mojave Desert, California Center for Land Use Interpretation (Wendover) Artist-in-Residence
Anderson Ranch Arts Center Artist-in-Residence Wingate Scholarship (2007)
Guest Lecturer for Kota Ezawa (California College of the Arts)
2006
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2006 SECA Award nominee
John Anson Kitteredge Foundation Grant
Center for Land Use Interpretation (Wendover) Artist-in-Residence
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2006
Smith Andersen North Exhibition Grant (SFAI MFA Photo Merit Award)
Montana Artist Refuge Artist-in-Residence (2006) (SFAI MFA Award)
Kala Art Institute Artist-in Residence (for 2007)
Merit Award, National 2006, Marin Society, Juror Rene de Guzman
Paul Sack Photography Award Honorable Mention
2005
Olafur Eliasson’s “Modelmania” workshop, Merit Scholarship, Venice, Italy (Domus Academy)
NASA Artist-in-Residence Atacama Desert, Chile
Paul Sack Photography Award Honorable Mention
Guest Lecturer for Paul Kos San Francisco Art Institute (“SFAI”)
Teaching Asst Fellowship for Tony LaBat Chairman New Genres SFAI Fall + Spring
2004
Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fellowship in Fine Arts San Francisco Foundation Jurors: Rene de Guzman, Visual Arts Curator, Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts, Courtney Fink, Executive Director, Southern Exposure, Steve Seid, Video Curator, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives
San Francisco Art Institute’s Nominee for Datatel Scholarship
2003
Oculus Photo: represented San Francisco Art Institute for traveling national show of upcoming United States MFA photographers Award of Merit, California State Fair Fine Art Exhibit
2001
Marcel Bardon Award, Corcoran College of Art, Washington, DC
Public Art Commissions/Collections
Bishop Collection, University of California, San Francisco, Mission Bay Cardiovascular Research Building (2012)
Sierra Fund ART OnSite Tribute Trail, Nevada City, CA (2012 for 2013)
Nevada Museum of Art
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PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA
‘Night Begins the Day’ thrills but falls short at Jewish Museum, Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, July 10, 2015
‘Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time, and Beauty’ at The CJM, N. Ewart,The Examiner.com, July 17, 2015 (Blatt photo)
Night Begins the Day, DeWitt Cheng,Visual Art Source, July 20, 2015 (Blatt photo)
Artists Inspire Awe with ‘Space, Time, and Beauty’ at CJM KQED Arts, June 19, 2015 (Blatt photo)
Capturing the Sublime in a Grain of Sand: Night Begins the Day at Contemporary Jewish Museum SFAQ, June 21, 2015 (Blatt photo)
Artists take back the night -- and the day-- in new CJM exhibit Jewish News Weekly, June 25, 2015 (Blatt photo)
Evocative CJM exhibit urges contemplation of day vs. night Examiner, June 26, 2015
“Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time, and Beauty” At The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco SciArt in America, July 1, 2015
Night Begins The Day: Exploring SF’s Contemporary Jewish Museum The Culture Trip, July 1, 2015
Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time, and Beauty at the Contemporary Jewish Museum Daily Serving, July 5, 2015
The Contemporary Jewish Museum: Night Begins the Day. Curated by Renny Pritikin and Lily Siegel Art Business, June 17, 2015
Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time, and Beauty Art Practical, July 16, 2015
Capturing the Sublime Bay Area Reporter, July 16, 2015
Night Begins the Day @ Contemporary Jewish Museum SquareCylinder, August 24, 2015
Proximities @ Asian Art Museum, Sarah Hotchkiss SquareCylinder.com June 10, 2013 (with Blatt’s photo)
Proximities 1: What time is it there? Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, by John Held, Jr. (with Blatt’s photo)
Cindy Sherman chooses/writes about Lisa K. Blatt,
The New Stars of Photography, Smithsonian Magazine, March 2012
KUSF IN EXILE, Roll Call: Bay Area Arts and Culture, Dj Margaret:
HYPERLINK “http://www.kusf-archives.com/2012/09/kusf-in-exile-090112-2-4-pm-roll-call.html”http://www.kusf-archives.com/2012/09/kusf-in-exile-090112-2-4-pm-roll-call.html
The San Francisco Triple Fair Affair, Aimee Le Duc KQED.com May 24, 2011
San Francisco Chronicle, Pick of the Week, March, 2011
Gallery Opening of the Week, Remote, Washington Post, October 29, 2010
Pick of the Week, Remote, Daily Candy, Washington, DC October 28, 2010
Remote review (with photo) WashingtonCityPaper.com Washington, DC November 8, 2010
Event of the Week: Polar Extremes, Iceland Review October 5, 2009 (Sweden)
HYPERLINK “http://fassanartisten.blogspot.com/2009/07/ar-kat-a4-konst.html” fassanartisten.blogspot.com/2009/07/ar-kat-a4-konstl
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Rocky Mountain News, February 26, 2009 by Mary Volz Chandler
Recognise, Art Forum, November 2007
Crimes and Splendors, NRC Handelsblad Netherlands 2007
Middle Ground by Martin Coomer, The Big Issue (London) 2007
Paranoia, The Guardian (London, England) 2007
Mills College Art Museum: Particulate Matter. 2006 Fully illustrated color catalogue
San Francisco Art Institute MFA show review 2006, Stretcher org
Interview between Michael Wilson, Art Forum and Director Pro Arts 2005
Art Week, November 1, 2005 Photography Show Preview at Baxter, Chang, Patri Fine Arts
San Francisco Chronicle, Review, 2005 Introductions at ProArts, Gallery
Kenneth Baker, August 26, 2005
San Francisco Chronicle, Review, Photoo, Kenneth Baker, August 21, 2005
Shotgun, Review, 2005 Introductions at ProArts Gallery
San Francisco Art Institute Magazine two page color article with original photographs re: residency with NASA in Atacama Desert, Chile Winter 2005
Art Week, Review of “FogFood”
Paranoia. England Fully illustrated color catalogue
San Francisco Art Institute. Juried Art Auction. Fully illustrated color catalogue
San Francisco Art Institute Catalogue (2004, 2005)
WPA\Corcoran SELECT II: Art Auction. Fully illustrated color catalogue
Arthritis Foundation Art Auction. Fully illustrated color catalogue
“One Hour Special: Art in Video on TV.” Channel 29, San Francisco, CA
“Oculus Photo Folio.” Published by Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bishop Collection, University of California, San Francisco, Mission Bay Cardiovascular Research Building (2012)
Nevada Museum of Art (Center for Land Use Interpretation works)
Sierra Fund ART OnSite Deer Creek Tribute Trail, Nevada City, CA
Ned Rifkin, former Under Secretary of Art, Smithsonian Institution, former Director Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Ann Hatch, San Francisco, CA
Maryellen Herringer, San Francisco, CA
Bryan Cave LLP, Washington, DC
Richard and Lenore Niles, San Francisco, CA
Dr. David Patterson, Washington, DC
Dottie Bennett, Washington, DC
Constance Lewallen and Bill Berkson
LECTURES / EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS
Visiting Professor, San Francisco Art Institute, 2016
Guest Lecture, The Battery, 2015
Master Chats: with Lisa Blatt on Robert Oppenheimer and Otto Frank, (for Arnold Newman show), Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Visiting Professor, San Francisco Art Institute, 2015
SouthEast Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana
Lecture and studio visits and classroom discussion 2014
University Nevada, Las Vegas + Nevada Arts Commission, lecture + studio visits Las Vegas, Nevada 2013
Visiting Professor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 2014
Visiting Professor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 2013
San Francisco Art Institute, Guest Lecturer for Zeina Barakeh, Jennifer Rissler (Art/Law) 2013
California College of Art, Guest Lecturer for Glen Helfand, Maria Porges (Art/Law) 2012
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San Francisco Art Institute, Guest Lecturer for Zeina Barakeh, Jennifer Rissler (Art/Law) 2012
Visiting Graduate Professor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 2011
Queen’s Nails Projects, Guest Lecturer, San Francisco, CA 2011
Northern CA Women’s Caucus, Censoring Women’s Art, panelist. Organized by Hanna Regev and Priscilla Otani San Francisco, CA 2011
California College of Art, Guest Lecturer for Glen Helfand, Stephanie Syjuko 2011
di Rosa Art, Panel with Paul Kos,Todd Hido, Jennifer O’Keefe moderated by Doreen Schmid and Robert Wuilfe Napa, CA 2010
PhotoAlliance Lecture, San Francisco 2010
Oxbow School, Napa Valley, CA Artist in Residence and Lecture 2010
UCLA, Guest Lecturer for James Welling, 2010
The Lab, San Francisco, CA 2010
Visiting Artist Lecture, OxBow School, Napa Valley, CA 2009
California College of Art, Guest Lecturer for Glen Helfand (Real World class) 2009
San Francisco Art Institute, Guest Lecturer for Linda Connor 2009
Diablo Valley College, Guest Lecture for Mayumi Hamanaka
McMurdo Station, Antarctica Artist Lecture 2008
San Francisco Art Institute, Guest Lecturer for Jack Fulton 2008
Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai; Shanghai, China, Lecture, Workshop 2007
Shanghai Jaio Tong University Lecture Shanghai, China 2007
California College of Art, Guest Lecturer for Kota Ezawa 2007
University of West Florida—Genius Loci Artist Lecture and Workshop 2006
Mills College Art Museum, Artist Talk in conjunction with solo show 2006
San Francisco Art Institute—Guest Lecturer for Paul Kos 2005
San Francisco Art Institute- Guest Lecturer for Tony LaBat 2005
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Chris Kahler
Leslie Laskey
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Yvonne Osei
Patricia Olynyk
Charles P. Reay
Daniel Raedeke
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