Who's The Victim? (Hammer) (2019), Cherry, chestnut, poplar, paint, $1,750

Join us on Wednesday, August 5, 7 p.m., for an online conversation between artist Lin Lisberger and scholar Myron Beasley. This talk will be streamed live on Facebook.

Predominantly a wood carver, Lin Lisberger’s sculpture is a sketch of a moment in time and space and the life of the tree. Her work focuses on the abstraction of narrative.

Myron Beasley, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at Bates College in the areas of American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. His ethnographic research includes exploring the intersection of cultural politics and art and social change, as he believes in the power of artists and recognizes them as cultural workers

Gravity combines work from two of Lin Lisberger’s series: Who’s the Victim? and Ladder and Bridge, each of which addresses forces that we feel but often do not understand or cannot escape. The work from Who’s the Victim? confronts the viewer with objects in opposition, often at the exact moment in time that each is impacting the other. What forces have brought the objects together, and what compels their interactions?

The pieces from Ladder and Bridge explore movement through space. They twist upwards in timeless forms as if they are trying to escape the conflict present in Who’s the Victim? and perhaps even the binds of gravity. Yet the structure required just to extend a few feet off the ground is evident.