Lisa Kokin | Mixed Media Art Installations

Welcome

This website strives to be accurate and complete. It represents a large part of the work I have completed since 1990. Although it is rather vast in scope, there are many pieces in each body of work that are not included. On occasion I accept commissions for private and public collections. Please send me a note if you are interested in a commission.

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Dress Show

Put It on the Dog is an installation made in collaboration with my partner Lia Roozendaal for the exhibition Dress: Clothing as Art at the Richmond Art Center.

I have always loved the idea of dressing up dogs, even before I had them. Once I adopted Chico and Cha Cha, my two rescue Chihuahua-Terriers, I started making them sweaters out of the sleeves of thrift store sweaters to keep them warm in the winter. I wished I had the time to make them more elaborate outfits and found myself thinking that if I weren’t an artist working on other themes, I could really come up with some interesting costumes. The Dress show was presented to me as an opportunity to be an artist who made dog couture as part of my art. What a revelation! I didn’t have to feel guilty about taking time away from my art to make clothes for my dogs!