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Lisa Sitko at What Pipeline

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[from the archive] EXPECT BIG DELAY 2011 Group exhibition, curated by Megan May Daalder and Johanna Hedva, installed (*) on the 405 freeway. * By installed, we mean thrown out the window of a car that's gunning it down the 405, the night before it closed. Participating artists include: Willem Henri Lucas, Casey Reas, Lisa Sitko, Robert Israel, Claire Evans, Gail Swanlund, Anna Reutinger, and Marc Horowitz.

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photo by Lisa Sitko

GAWS

we out here!

shouts to Art Production Fund and Alex Katz.

I'm trying to get big enough so he can do my cover art.

Or teach me how to ball.

Either one.

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Agency ForYourArt: Campaign for The Banana Love Collection by Lisa

ForYourArt created an engagement campaign around Lisa Sitko's The Banana Love Collection by Lisa which launched at ForYourArt  February 8th-10th, 2013. ForYourArt created media and graphics with banana facts, which were distributed online via social media.

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This Friday February 8th, 2013. For Your Art presents "The Banana Love Collection" by Lisa Sitko. 6 - 9pm, 6020 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles (across the way from LACMA). Check it out!

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The Planter Show by ForYourArt

September 6-9, 2012

The Planter Show, curated by Matt Merkel Hess and Lisa Sitko, was an exploration of the sculptural, functional, and cultural implications of putting plants into containers. In the last few years, an increasing number of artists have made planters and standalone sculptures that include plants, or have included potted plants in installations. For this show, emerging and established Los Angeles artists exhibited various pots and sculptures that expanded on the theme of the planter.

Artists’ works ranged from straightforward pots with holes in the bottom to sculptures that reconsider the hybrid outdoor-indoor space created by a plant in a portable container. The four-day show also included terrariums, free ready-to-plant cuttings, and a container gardening ‘zine as well as an opening reception, film screening, and interactive workshops all focused around plants in various ways.

Carolyn Kaylor’s film Cereus & Whatnot - shot on super 8 and 16mm film, printed to 16mm, color, mono optical sound – was screened on Friday. The film is a dramatic allegory inspired by and partly about an enigmatic plant commonly known as the Night Blooming Cereus. Employing documentary and narrative elements, it is a meditation on nature in captivity, life, death and cinematic expectation.

Artist and sustainable horticulturist Kim Kelly lead an indigo dye workshop where guests learned to transform textiles with this timeless technique, which uses the indigo plant. Matt Merkel Hess and special guests taught a free workshop on potted plant care, Planter Workshop: From Purple to Green Thumb
, for those who purchased a planter at our show.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Elliott Agnew, Tanya Batura, Sarah Beadle, Joshua Callaghan, Bianca D’Amico, Michael Dopp, Julia Dzwonkoski & Kye Potter, Gay Gardens, Julia Haft-Candell, Sam Combellick, Roger Herman, Linda Hsiao, Mitsuko Ikeno, Shoshi Kanokohata, Carolyn Kaylor, Knowhow Shop LA, Claire Kohne, Kelly Lamb, Chris Lipomi, Matthias Merkel Hess, Alex Miller, Chris Miller, Miracle Bookmobile, Joshua Nathanson, Chelsea Novalle, Taidgh O’Neill, Shin Okuda, Joel Otterson, Jared Pankin & Kelly McLane, Isaac Resnikoff, Kathleen Ryan, Constance Saxe, Lisa Sitko, Marisa Suárez-Orozco, Joel Tauber, Kerry Tribe, Monique Van Genderen, Nicolau Vergueiro, Margo Victor, Pilar Wiley, Tracy Wilkinson, and Lena Wolek.

Read more from Los Angeles Times.

Download The Planter Show zine here.  

Matt Merker Hess, porcelain beer can planters

See more photos here.