Lisa Sigal

Combining elements of painting, sculpture, and installation, often within a single work, Lisa Sigal examines the nature of physical space in her practice, probing the relationship architecture plays in everyday environmental experiences. Her site-specific constructions act not as shelters or alternative living spaces, but as pictorial ones, offering a place of contemplative refuge from the occasionally oppressive building designs of the contemporary world. Her materials range from pigment and primer to duct tape and sheet rock, with recent work employing sheets of detached wallpaper, creating interiors that explore the political and social concepts of architecture and physical space. Sigal’s work has been exhibited at institutions including the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut, MoMa PS1, the Queens Museum, the New Museum, and Sculpture Center, and was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.