Born in New Brunswick, NJ, Lisa Conrad relocated to Miami, FL in 2021. She earned her BFA in Studio Arts and MA in Art Education from Kean University. For the past decade, Conrad has taught visual art instruction in schools, art centers, and museums. She is the Founder of the Newark Print Shop, a non-profit printmaking studio in Newark, where she served as the Executive Director for 10 years. As a practicing artist, Conrad’s work ranges from contemporary printmaking methods, bookmaking, papermaking, ceramics, and mixed-media sculptures. Her work has been exhibited widely and is held in various private and public collections including the Newark Public Library Collections. Conrad currently teaches art at iPrep Academy in downtown Miami.
Artist Statement
Working with paper, ceramics, and printmaking techniques, I explore my experience of the impermanence of home, having lived in over twenty places. Through material exploration and technical process, I layer imagery of buildings representative of the changing landscape that surrounds me, as I drift from one rental lease to the next. Hand-printed impressions portray vanishing facades and the memories of the soul of those spaces. Weaving through my past of lived environments, I emphasize the implications of the housing crisis as it personally affects working class families like myself.