Lisa Alberts (b. 1983) is a multidisciplinary artist interested in the maternal experience. Lisa received her BFA in Fine Art from Kendall College of Art and Design, followed by graduate work in Photo Theory at Durham University in Durham, UK. She has participated in artist residencies with Stay Home Gallery in Paris, TN, and Empty Room (online). Lisa is a current exhibiting artist with the Farmington Hills Public Art Program and Co-Founder of Skep Space, an artist-centered community for creatives in her area. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Lisa, her partner, and their two children live in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

Artist Statement

I use alternative photography techniques to create textiles and soft sculpture that explore the intersection of motherhood and the physicality of caregiving, investigating how the human experience feels in the body. In collaboration with the weather, my children, and sometimes my garden, I make large scale backyard sunprints on old bedsheets which I then tear up and use to create soft sculptures. Process is central to my work and often feels like private performance. These works are an investigation into anxiety, motherhood in America, the way we hold big feelings in our bodies, and the objects of comfort used as antidotes to our anxieties.