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EXHIBITIONS
Flora and Fauna
Gail Severn Gallery
Ketchum, ID
May 12 – July 1, 2022
I am pleased to have two horticulturally-inspired pieces in the current exhibition at Gail Severn Gallery, a group show celebrating the changing seasons and the beauty found in nature’s vibrant palette.
U.S. Embassy
Paris, France
Facilitated by Gail Severn Gallery
I am so excited to have my piece Trace on exhibit for a period of three years at the U.S. Embassy in Paris through the Art in Embassies Program. Trace is the first in what has become a series entitled Raw Edge which is based on imagery from a graveyard in Brazil for people who died of Covid. What started as a tapestry of grief has expanded in meaning to encompass domestic and worldwide issues of war and the erosion of human rights.
RECENT COMMISSION
Please Rate Your Experience Tikkun: for the Cosmos, the Community
and Ourselves
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
San Francisco, CA
February 17, 2021 – January 8, 2023
I was commissioned to make a work for the 12th Annual Dorothy Saxe Invitational on the theme of Tikkun, or “repair.” Please Rate Your Experience is a polyptych, and the most complex piece to date in my Raw Edge series. The exhibition features the work of more than 25 artists whose work reflects on the theme of care and interconnectedness grounded in personal action, environmental responsibility and community during this time of collective challenges and uncertainty.
Find more examples of commissions here→
ARTIST TALK AT THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Stitching, Patching, Repurposing, Repairing: Lisa Kokin on Art and Tikkun
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
San Francisco, CA
Friday, June 17, 2022 | 12pm
Please join me for a talk on my commissioned mixed media fiber work Please Rate Your Experience at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Following is the museum’s description of the talk: In artist Lisa Kokin's words, "Art is the way I attempt to make sense of a (sometimes senseless) world and express what I think about what goes on in that world." Join us in the gallery this June as Kokin, one of thirty artists featured in Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves, discusses her creative practice and how it channels her deep concern for the human condition, and the precarious positions in which humanity often finds itself. In the process, discover how Kokin's artwork featured in the exhibition reflects on the concept of tikkun (Hebrew for "to repair") through stitching, patching, repurposing, and repairing.
Please book tickets here. Program is free→
MENTORING & CRITIQUE
I work one-on-one with many artists in my Coaching/Mentorship Program, an outgrowth of decades of mentoring graduate students in local colleges and universities. The program is tailored to the needs of each artist and includes six one-hour meetings or the equivalent to be completed within six months.
Artists use their coaching/mentorship sessions for critique and career development, as well as issues related to maintaining a consistent studio practice.
For artists who live outside of the San Francisco Bay Area, mentorships are available via Zoom.
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PUBLICATIONS
Five Contemporary Embroidery Artists by Jo Hall
TextileArtist.org
In this article from the U.K. featuring my work, I talk about the inspiration for and making of Shooter, part of my series How the West Was Sewn, in which I stitch leaves, vines and branches from the covers of pulp cowboy novels. Read article here →
Mending money: Lisa Kokin
Essay by Maria Porges
Maria Porges has written an insightful essay about my work with money as part of a series of essays featuring, in her words, “artists for whom mending plays a significant role in their art practice.” The essays feature work in a diverse array of media and I am honored to be included. Read essay here →