@MarkMooreGallery is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition by artist Lisa Stefanelli titled “SHOT” which focuses on the tension between recent school shootings and the right to bear arms that has brought us to a place of division and fear.
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Lisa Stefanelli is an artist living and working in New York City and Easton, Pennsylvania. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design and received her degree in 1989. She has been a practicing artist for the last three decades.
ARTIST STATEMENT ABOUT THIS SERIES OF WORK:
Our Second Amendment has unified us through perplexing and heartbreaking events. The right to bear arms has brought us to a place of division and fear.
We fear for the safety of our children not only because we cannot protect them from being murdered in what we once considered the safest of places but because we cannot understand how we have brought this upon them.
Mass shootings are politicized events, yet they are orchestrated by individuals who do not seek political vindication. The individuals who commit these shootings are motivated not by politics but by emotional and mental confusion, which leaves us, the survivors, somehow more remorse, and confused as well.
What are these images?
The images are photographs of powdered coated Corten steel targets on a shooting range.
What are these actual marks?
They are the marks of discharged firearms.
They are the marks bullets make upon steel.
They are marks of extreme force and severe impact, frozen in time.
Conceptually what do the marks and lines signify?
The marks represent the unfathomable act of mass shooting.
The marks are projectiles exploding on steel.
The marks are landing places of discharged firearms.
They embody impressive force, explosions physically impacting steel.
They mark an inextricable moment in time.
The lines suggest the indivisible connection between shooter and victim.
The lines suggest the human connection between the two sides of this argument,
the line between us that mourns.
They are pathways to hope and humanity.
ABOUT THIS ARTIST:
LISA STEFANELLI’s most recent solo exhibitions include Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, Penn, Pierogi Gallery, NYC, Robischon Gallery, and Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, California. She has work in the collections of the United States Department of State, Washington DC, The West Collection, Oaks, PA, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA, The Mondstudio Collection at the Kunstmuseum, Berne, Switzerland, The Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY and The Wynn Collection, Las Vegas, NV.
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