Biography
Lisa Marie Jakab received her Master of Fine Arts Degree with Distinction at American University this May. She received her BFA, Magna Cum Laude, from Alfred University and also studied at the University of Sydney in Australia.
This summer she spent living and working in Berlin, participating in GlogauAIR, an Artist-in Residence program. Jakab was also awarded scholarships to attend residencies at Chautauqua Institution in 2010 and 2011 as well as at the Art Students League of New York in 2011.
Most recently, Lisa’s work has been shown at the GlogauAIR in Berlin; the American University Museum at the Katzen Center in Washington, DC; Arlington Art Center in Arlington, Virginia; Emphasis Interiors in Pittsburgh; Forum Art Space in Purchase, NY; The Corcoran Gallery of Art’s Transformer Benefit Auction; (e)merge Art Fair in Washington, DC; Greenpoint Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; Triangle Arts Association Project Space in Brooklyn, NY; Mac Worthington Gallery in Columbus, Ohio; The Art Institute of Pittsburgh; and the Art Students League of New York Vytlacil Campus Artist-in-Residence exhibition in Sparkill, NY.
Lisa Marie Jakab creates abstract imagery about liminal spaces using biomorphic forms informed by nature and the cosmos. Generating her own interpretation of beautiful imagery, she explores the psychology of cognition. Her process of making is reflective of these interests and resides in the play between fragility and delicacy, and the stated and forceful; between the purposeful and the accidental.
