LISA ERF

The series of landscape collages that comprise Erf's newest work are sourced from publications that the artist has collected over decades of studio practice. Illustrations and photographic reproductions from a variety of sources -- natural history, cooking books, children's text books, medical books, travel guides and assorted instruction manuals, are combined to create surreal landscapes full of fantasy and mystery.

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"Heads", Lisa Erf's recent series of quirky, deadpan paintings, coyly questions, then reaffirms the validity of painting in today's media-saturated world. At play are postmodernism's radical doubts about originality, and through her use of appropriation and repetition, Erf addresses the opposition between mass production and the unique object. To this end, she mines the unlikely genre of amateur portraiture, not the legacy of the modernist avant-garde, creating idiosyncratic works, as alluring as they are critical. (Art in America, May, 2001 by Susan Snodgrass)