Mt. Disappointment, 2010 - Lisi Raskin

The multimedia artist Lisi Raskin uses large-scale drawings, collages, and installations to take on themes that emerged in the Cold War, from nuclear panic and fallout shelters to the military command centers that brought mankind to the brink of annihilation. Using a mixture of official documents and fictitious scenarios—she once enlisted the organizers of a show, for instance, to play the roles of a mad scientist and her bodyguard—she takes a nightmarish topic that for the most part has faded from the public dialogue and makes it immediately pressing, and often playfully accessible.

Raskin's work, which often intermingles geometric motifs from Russian Constructivist art, has been showcased at institutions from MoMA PS1 to Stockholm's IASPIS Project Space, and she has been featured in the Istanbul, Athens, and Sydney biennials. In 2005 she became the youngest artist to receive the Berlin Art Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, and in 2009 she was commissioned by the Dia Art Foundation to create a video-game-like interactive web project called Warning Warum.
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