LISI RASKIN

Lisi Raskin and Jesse Harrod: Mending and Repair In Response
Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, 2019

I imagined having coffee together and remarking how high and flat must the cliffs have been in order to push against the sky that way, 2018-19
Acrylic, oil, and nerve pain on wood
18 3/4 x 25 1/4 inches

Sometimes the sun feels that strong. Is that what you imagined?, 2018-19
Acrylic, oil, and nerve pain on wood
19 x 24 inches

I imagined holding your coat sleeve while asking if diamonds and trees, fangs and crowns ever became each other in your mind, 2018-19
Acrylic, oil, and nerve pain on wood
19 x 24 inches

I imagined asking you about the pointed ovoid as a framing device and how it feels to use ballpoint pen in tight corners, 2018–19
Acrylic, oil, and nerve pain on wood
18 1/2 x 27 1/4 inches

Mystery Animal, 2019
Acrylic, oil, and nerve pain on wood with hand carved basswood frame
30 x 22 1/4 inches

Spider, 2019
Acrylic, oil, and nerve pain on wood with hand carved basswood frame
27 x 20 3/4 inches

Apart Together, 2019
Acrylic, oil, and nerve pain on wood with hand carved basswood frame
49 x 39 3/4 inches

Turquoise (it), 2019
Acrylic, oil, and nerve pain on wood with hand carved basswood frame
32 x 34 3/4 inches

For J.C. #1, 2019
Acrylic, oil, and nerve pain on wood with hand carved pine frame
14 x 9 inches

For J.C. #3, 2019
Acrylic, oil, and nerve pain on wood with hand carved pine frame
14 x 9 inches

For J.C. #2, 2019
Acrylic, oil, and nerve pain on wood with hand carved pine frame
14 x 9 inches

For J.C. #4, 2019
Acrylic, oil, and nerve pain on wood with hand carved pine frame
14 x 9 inche

Mending and Repair in Response was a two-person show with artist Jesse Harrod, at Fleisher Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia. Connecting with the work of 20th-century self-taught artists like Joseph Yoakum, James Castle, and Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Raskin updated historical markers of outsiderness with contemporary notions of queerness, gender identity, and disability. For the exhibition, Raskin repurposed plywood from their previous large-scale installations about nuclear war and isolation to create smaller-scale constructions showing gratitude to influences including Ellsworth Kelly and Rasheed Araeen. As an artist identifying on a queer and disabled register, Raskin is oriented obliquely to normative structures of gender expression, learning, fatigue, and chronic pain; factors requiring constant negotiation that produce conditions of isolation. In an act of homage, they created connections between their own strategies and those of artists and scholars whose work emerged from horizons neglected by mainstream contexts. The exhibition became a material attempt to reconfigure ways that embodied realities necessitate constant adaptation so repair can occur, not as a solution, but as an acknowledgement enabling the continuation of movement, care, love, and action.

Pink Parts, 2018-19
Oil, acrylic, and nerve pain on felt on panel
67 x 48 inches

From Castle to Araeen 4, 2019
Gouache, graphite, polyvinyl adhesive, and nerve pain on woven paper
4 1/4 x 4 inches

From Castle to Glissant 6, 2019
Gouache, graphite, and polyvinyl adhesive on woven paper
9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches

From Castle to Glissant 1, 2019
Gouache, graphite, and polyvinyl adhesive on woven paper
9 1/2 x 8 inches

From Castle to Araeen 6, 2019
Gouache, graphite, polyvinyl adhesive, and nerve pain on woven paper
4 1/2 x 4 1/8 inches

From Castle to Araeen 3, 2019
Gouache, graphite, and polyvinyl adhesive on woven paper
4 1/2 x 4 inches

From Castle to Glissant 2, 2019
Gouache, graphite, polyvinyl adhesive, and nerve pain on woven paper
9 1/2 x 8 inches

Donkey (for James Castle), 2019
Gouache on carved basswood
8 x 11 x 3 inches

Camel (for James Castle), 2019
Gouache on carved basswood
9 x 10 1/2 x 3 inches

Turkey (for James Castle), 2019
Gouache on carved basswood
9 1/4 x 8 x 4 inches

Rooster (for James Castle), 2019
Gouache on carved basswood
8 1/4 x 8 1/2 x 2 inches

For Leslie Feinberg, 2 (Leaden Hearts), 2017-19
Oil, acrylic, and nerve pain on wood
2 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches

For Leslie Feinberg, 3 (Leaden Hearts), 2017-19
Oil, acrylic, and nerve pain on wood
3 x 1 3/4 inches

For Leslie Feinberg, 7 (Leaden Hearts), 2017-19
Oil, acrylic, and nerve pain on wood
3 x 2 1/2 inches