BARBARA LUBLINER

ARTIST STATEMENT

Playful integration of ideas is at the heart of mBarbara Lubliner’s art practice. Making artwork is the artists way to explore ideas and reveal hidden connections. The work is content-driven expression; over the years, it has ranged from two-dimensional works on paper and sculpture in a variety of mediums to video and performance art, public projects, and installations. Lubliner addresses themes such as environmental blight, mortality, gender, and language. The work is informed by an instinct to understand, accept, nurture, and transform.

Lubliner’s recent works utilize printmaking as a performative process. Thinking in terms of a set of tasks or a "Fluxus score" that generates the print. The series of monotypes "Cognitive Itches" utilizes letterforms and words to expressive an image. Each print can be read all at once as a visual expression and more slowly for nuance and linguistic meaning.

BIO

Barbara Lubliner (aka Ms. Muscle) is a Manhattan-based multidisciplinary artist whose work has been featured in numerous galleries and museums. Her solo exhibitions include Gibson Gallery Museum, Carter Burden Gallery, and Drawing Rooms. Group exhibitions include Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Islip Art Museum, and Westbeth Gallery. Lubliner's outdoor upcycled art installations have been at City Reliquary Museum, Brooklyn's East River State Park, and Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church green space. Performance venues include the Brooklyn Museum, Après Avant Garde Festival, Art in Odd Places, and the Every Woman Biennial.