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Lin Lisberger: Sculpture

Ladders | Figures and Cars | Hands | Shields and Helmets | Ribs

Resumé Below:

Lin Lisberger is a sculptor in Maine working with local wood: "My sculptures are made with wood in an intuitive way, trying to follow the curves of the wood. I work to create forms which echo many possible images--ladders, shields, helmets, fossils, farm tools, Japanese tree supports, a quick drawing. Each sculpture is a sketch of a moment in time and place--in the life of the tree and in the balance between strength and fragility in humans and nature."

"...her skeletal fruitwood constructions carry themselves along uncertain journeys....It is a graceful and disarmingly poignant performance."
--Philip Issacson in Maine Sunday Telegram, June 17, 2007

"Lin Lisberger has struck a potent balance in this exhibition (Expressive Figures) of external strife and inner strength and the nature that grounds and nurtures that strength."
--June LaCombe, sculpture curator, March 2005

"...Her three separate sculptures of polished wood ribs claw into thin air as if the ribs themselves could seek and breathe. They link the skeletal ribs of humans and animals to Maine wooden boats and the limbs of trees--as well as to the blind groping of desire."
--Donna Gold in Maine Times, June 12, 1997

"...Working against this visual fragility is the second force, Lisberger's 'just tossed off' casualness. The effect of all this is impressionistic and irresistible."
--Philip Isaacson in Maine Sunday Telegram, March 23, 1997

"...The work has grace, vitality and a sense of transience. It may dance and then vanish."
--Philip Isaacson in Maine Sunday Telegram, June 2, 1996

Resumé

Education and Teaching

1980	MFA in Sculpture, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts
1981-present	Instructor of Sculpture, Drawing and 3D Design, University of Southern Maine
1987-88	Instructor of Drawing and 3D Design, Portland School of Art

Recent Exhibitions

2007	Sculpture Invitational 2007, Chesterwood Historic Trust, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
	Journeys, 3fish gallery, Portland, Maine
2006	Forests, Atrium Gallery,University of Southern Maine, Lewiston-Auburn, Lewiston, Maine
	I WITNESS: Art in a Political Context, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River, Massachusetts
2005	Expressive Figures, Solo exhibit, 3fish gallery, Portland, Maine
2004	The Animate Earth, Hawk Ridge Farm, Pownal, Maine
2003	Grant Jacks Memorial Exhibit, UNE Art Gallery, Portland, Maine
2002	Terrain: Sculpture Today, ICA at MECA, Portland, Maine
2001	Outdoor Sculpture, University of New England, Portland, Maine
2000	Gaea Basket Installation, Portland City Hall, Portland, Maine
1999	Log Show, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, Maine
1998	Solo exhibit, Lakes Gallery, Casco, Maine
	Fresh out of the Studio: Maine Sculptors Create, Danforth Gallery, Portland, Maine
1997	Forest City Annual, Portland, Maine
	4th Annual Juried Sculpture Exhibit, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
1996	Out of the Woods, Lakes Gallery, Casco, Maine
	Environmental Arts at the Eighth Triennial, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts
	Inside/Outside, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, Maine
	Ten Years of Fire, Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1995	Sculpture Competition 1995, Radford University, Radford Virginia
	Solo Exhibit, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine