Lisa Naas

Lives and works in Easton, MD

Artist statement

As a conceptual, visual artist, I have been using glass as my primary medium for the last twenty years — I match my idea to the techniques that will best express it. I see endless possibility for conceptual exploration and artistic expression in glass, with its shapeshifting nature, unique material qualities, associative properties, and roles in society. I enjoy working individually and collaboratively across the glass studios, techniques, and exhibition platforms. Processes, remains, and remaking are of particular interest, as are subjects of the female body, feminine accessories, mental trappings, loss, and grief. This has resulted in a variety of artistic outputs, from sculpture to installation to film to my most recent work: Mourning Cloak, a glass garment two years in the making, which debuted in June 2026 at the Corning Museum of Glass. Mourning Cloak brings together and intertwines all these interests. It is a culminating work developed from a thread of exploration begun over a decade ago. I created the original glass pieces from a mold of my body twelve years ago when I was life-casting and creating my Embodiment in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Embodiment plaster-silica mold broke apart, but I continued using its pieces (including its rough undersides) for creating gestural glass panels for the Sorrows Release Installation that examined community sorrows. After moving and carrying the work over the years across the Atlantic and through different cities, I reclaimed...

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