Lisa Bateman

Ignis & Aer II
(1988)

Learn more about Lisa Bateman's recent public projects on her website https://www.lisabateman.com/

Lisa Bateman's projects incorporate the history of particular sites and systemic learning. She makes installations using painted and colored surfaces, mirrors, optics, found objects and video. She has exhibited in over thirty group exhibitions and six one-person shows in both the US and Europe. Bateman is an associate professor at Pratt Institute. Her national and international exhibitions and curatorial projects include Location One (New York), PS1 MoMA (New York); public arts projects include MTA Arts for Transit, BACA, PACC; special projects manager, PS1 MoMA; publications include Teme Celeste magazine; awards include Pollock-Krasner fellowship.

Ignis and Aer II
1988
screen print
edition: 30, 2 HC
image: 20” x 28”
6 colors on Rives BFK

Three subtle layers of color combine with image marks on each side of the red/ blue surface. Like a fingerprint, large screened dots reference the artist's emotional ideas. In classical Greek philosophy, science, and medicine, fire and air are two of the four elements that represent the realms of the cosmos wherein all things exist and whereof all things consist.