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Hi, I'm Lissa.

Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe is a classically trained artist with extensive studies in art history. Her work is recognized for minimalist, methodical patterns, squares, and self portraiture. Her sculptures focus on constructed objects and the space created by them. She works primarily in plastic and production of multiples. Preoccupations include hex numbering systems and colors, and Blue Skies. Influences include early Minimalism and the Light and Space Movement. Along with dumbing down and wishing up tech.

 

Separate from art and related art projects, Lissa’s professional nonprofit and advocacy career spans decades, from the 1990s to present. She has championed arts and cultural initiatives for leading national arts and humanities organizations and has advanced equitable access to arts and humanities in Washington, DC. Board service includes National Cherry Blossom Festival and the Arts Lab of South County.

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My New Series Feature:

 

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"Hot and Delicious"

 

AI generated prints on paper, acrylic, stainless steel, 2024

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New series on view during Women’s History Month at:

  • “Thoughts, Questions and Shit to Say" Women's History Month Exhibition at Dupont Underground March 8- April 7.

  • “Women” group show at Arts Lab of South County March 1-30.

 

With ‘Hot and Delicious’ I grapple with "What does it mean to be a woman anyway?" Each panel, an Ai-generated self-portrait amidst pizza boxes, intertwines themes of sustenance, consumption, and desire. The familiarity of pizza—an everyday common nourishment, quick and indulgent— I ponder roles and expectations assigned to me. Pizza boxes become the often unseen depths of experience: what is left when the traditional roles of nurturing are fulfilled, and what desires and identities lie beneath?

 

The pattern of my face across these panels is a meditation on this question. It represents the cyclical nature of roles as providers and consumers, the constant negotiation with societal narratives around our desires and appetites. The dualities embodied, the nurturing and the desirous, the comforting and the condemning. With “Hot and Delicious”, I'm inviting you to consider the complexities, the patterns, the dualities of desire and consumption, the repetitiveness.  Am I still hot? Am I still delicious? Can one have too much Pizza? Too much of a woman? Too many women? Too much of me? 

 

Pizza is this duality: a source of sustenance that's also an object of desire, often enjoyed yet paradoxically critiqued. So satisfying, yet is it enough? Can you have enough? Is it bad for you? Will it just do? The balance between being a source of comfort and embracing our appetites. A deeper understanding of the conflicted nature of cravings through repetition— what can be hot and delicious over and over, again and again.

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My Current/ Recent Group Shows:

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  • ‘Vivid!', 2024’, Falls Church Arts 

  • 'Collectors Choice' 2024, Maryland Federation of Art

  • ‘Be Square 2024’, Martino Gallery at Maryland Hall

  • ‘Off the Wall 2024’, Earl Gallery at Maryland Hall

  • Spring Member Show 2024, Circle Gallery, Winner

  • ‘Nothing But Blueskies at Artomatic 2024’, Artomatic, Room 4014, 2100 M Street NW 2024 Bowling Pin of Excellence Nominee, acknowledged as “…easily the selection for one of the most innovative and serene projects of Artomatic history: Lisa Rosenthal-Yoffe’s “Nothing but Blue Skies” in room 4014 — That’s how you do a room installation!” —@lennycampello, DC Arts News. 

  • ‘Thoughts, Questions & Shit to Say’ 2nd Annual Women’s Show at Dupont Underground

  • ‘Hot and Delicious’ at 'Women 2024' exhibit at Arts Lab of South County

  • Winter Show 2023, Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery

  • 'Small Wonders' 2023, Circle Gallery

  • 'Collectors Choice' 2023, Maryland Federation of Art

  • 'Creative Community' 2023, Sandy Spring Museum

  • Juried Members Fall Show 2023, Arts Lab South County

  • Annapolis Group Show 2023, Circle Gallery

  • Arts Lab of South County 2023, Maryland Federation of Art 

  • Gallery 209, Rockville monthly exhibitions since 2022

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