Las Hermanas Igelsias
[Image description: A view from above of a person holding an open book on their lap. On the book’s pages is a photograph of Lisa and Janelle. They wear orange tops and both blow large bubbles of pink gum.]
Las Hermanas Iglesias is a collaboration-based project by sisters Lisa and Janelle Iglesias. Their trans-disciplinary work explores issues of hybridity, social participation, and transnational identities. Their collective has fluidly evolved to include a number of team efforts and variations, including steady collaborations with their mother, Bodhild. Through employing playful structures that respond to the community and geographical context of each project, Las Hermanas Iglesias create artworks that disrupt borders, engage absurdity, and promote the benefits of working together.
Lisa recently joined the Department of Art at Mount Holyoke College as an Associate Professor and is also a mother. Her work explores expansive histories and potentials of drawing and painting, and takes into consideration the translation of patterns, images, and gestures across materials. Her work has been supported by NYFA and residencies at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, among others. Lisa divides her time between Western Mass and Queens, NY, with travel projects in a variety of destinations including recent long-term residences in the Dominican Republic, Finland, and Malta.
Janelle is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at the University of California San Diego and works on site-responsive projects in a variety of contexts. Her work is invested in the metaphors, history, and agency of objects/materials and their physical language in space. An alumna of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, her work has been supported by the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation, through which Janelle conducted research on bowerbirds in the rainforests of West Papua.
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