Lisa Alberts (b.1983) is a textile and performance artist exploring big feelings, relationships, and the maternal experience. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and community spaces nationally and internationally, most recently at the Shepherd, Detroit, ArtLink, Fort Wayne, and Coop Gallery, Nashville. In 2022, Lisa co-founded Skep Space in Farmington, MI, an artist-centered community and studio space for creatives in her area. She has a post-graduate certificate in Photo Theory from Durham University in Durham, England, and a BFA in Fine Art from Kendall College of Art and Design. She currently lives with her partner and children in metro-Detroit, 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.