Lisa Alembik

The Joans, Explosions, 2023

Ink, Charcoal, Pastel, Watercolor

22 x 30 inches; framed:

Courtesy of the artist

www.lisaalembik.com, @lalalembik

Lisa Alembik is an artist, educator, and curator. Her artwork centers on the fragility of corporeality, and how cultural and political ideas of nature and home often rest in the female body. She considers the suffering of those torn and traumatized through forced diaspora, both the atrocities of current events and history-especially those perpetrated against those who identify as women. Alembik's drawings, paintings and installations have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, City College Art Gallery in San Francisco, CA and the Hyde Gallery at Memphis College of Art, TN among other venues. In recent drawings like the "Fallen Fire Explosion" series, Alembik reimagines the vulnerability of battle-weary protectors, soldiers and those who are displaced, utilizing daily documentation of war posted by photojournalists on Instagram and in the news. Alembik was the gallery director at Agnes Scott College for over a decade, and she is currently an associate professor of art at Georgia State University Perimeter College.