Cybele Lyle
Cybele Lyle is a San Francisco based artist whose installation, video and 2D work reconstructs the architecture and natural environment around her into an alternate vision of interior and exterior space. Using various strategies of documentation, Lyle’s work examines issues of identity and social representation by focusing the lens on herself and her community. She explores the connections between constructed space and constructed subjectivity through sculpture, photography, video and projection. The spaces she creates—queer, safe, architectural and emotional—form a critically reconstructed mirror of reality, an alternative environment in which all forms of intimacy are allowed to be visible. She uses social and visual material from her own life to represent spaces of transformative potential and desire.
Lyle has held residencies at Ox-Bow, Project 387, Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Her works have been exhibited across the United States including at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Hunter College, Bemis Center, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Et al. Gallery in San Francisco, among others. Cybele is a recipient of the Kala Fellowship, the Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking award, the Tony Smith Award and was a finalist for the 2012 SF MoMA SECA award.
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Cybele Lyle is a San Francisco based artist whose installation, video and 2D work reconstructs the architecture and natural environment around her into an alternate vision of interior and exterior space. Using various strategies of documentation, Lyle’s work examines issues of identity and social representation by focusing the lens on herself and her community. She explores the connections between constructed space and constructed subjectivity through sculpture, photography, video and projection. The spaces she creates—queer, safe, architectural and emotional—form a critically reconstructed mirror of reality, an alternative environment in which all forms of intimacy are allowed to be visible. She uses social and visual material from her own life to represent spaces of transformative potential and desire.
Lyle has held residencies at Ox-Bow, Project 387, Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Her works have been exhibited across the United States including at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Hunter College, Bemis Center, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Et al. Gallery in San Francisco, among others. Cybele is a recipient of the Kala Fellowship, the Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking award, the Tony Smith Award and was a finalist for the 2012 SF MoMA SECA award.
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