Lisa Rybovich Crallé

Visiting Artist Lectures

Lisa Rybovich Crallé

01/31/20

Please join us for a lecture with artist Lisa Rybovich Crallé.

Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 7:00 — 8:30pm
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Lisa Rybovich Crallé is an interdisciplinary artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her research focuses on corporeality and embodied experience in relation to sculpture, installation, and performance. Her work has been presented at Cornell University, the Manetti Shrem Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Berkeley Art Museum, Syracuse University, Mills College, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Land and Sea, and Field Projects, among other venues. She has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Ox-Bow, Arteles, and the Bubec Sculpture Studio. In addition to her studio practice, Lisa teaches at Berkeley City College and co-organizes Heavy Breathing, a series of experimental artist-led movement seminars.

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