BARBARA LUBLINER

ARTIST STATEMENT

My artwork is content-driven expression. Over the years, it has ranged from two-dimensional works on paper, sculpture in a variety of mediums, video and performance art, as well as public art projects and installations. I have addressed such themes as environmental blight, mortality, and gender. Being a woman, giving birth, and being a caretaker informs my work with the instinct to understand, accept, nurture, and transform. I look for lyrical and iconic forms and tend towards a minimal aesthetic. I look for insightful humor. Playful integration of ideas is at the heart of all my work. My two Flower Lips series are paper reliefs that incorporate found materials such zippers, buttons, nuts and bolts, staples, fabric, and rope. In both series I cut watercolor paper which I have painted bright lipstick colors. In the (v) series the colors are on the reverse side creating a pink glow on the sculptures' surfaces and on the wall on which they are hung. I attach the paper with mechanical methods. Most are sewn together, others are riveted or bolted, while others are stapled. The works reference flowers, women's lips, genitals, and female energy. Flower Lips (v) celebrate intimate female energy. Flower Lips (m) explore the internal and external conditions that nurture women's expression. Each one is a "snapshot" of a creative way to speak out and be heard.

BIO

Barbara Lubliner is a Manhattan based artist whose work has been exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries. Her solo exhibitions include Gibson Gallery Museum, Carter Burden Gallery, and Drawing Rooms. Group exhibitions include Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Islip Art Museum, and El Barrio Artspace. Lubliner's outdoor upcycled art installations have been at City Reliquary Museum, Brooklyn's East River State Park, and Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church green space. Performance venues include the Brooklyn Museum, Après Avant Garde Festival, and Art in Odd Places. Lubliner is included in the Brooklyn Museum online Feminist Art Base.