Imposter Syndrome

Imposter Syndrome includes the work of two artists examining the boundaries of two dimensions and pushing their respective works on paper to sculptural proportions. 

 

Working on paper is central to Lisa Bergh's work, but she has not bound herself to the common or predictable scale and pictorial orientation. Small framed arrangements, large irregular shapes, or hung from the ceiling and presented as screens, she explores paper as both an object and a substrate. Bergh does not stick close to the center of either abstraction or representation, but instead hovers and crosses the dotted line between them with regularity.

Lyz Wendland's work is founded on explorations of color and shape and is grounded in the interplay of visual language between two-dimensional and three-dimensional pieces. The lines, shapes, and forms she observes in her neighborhood result in this current body of work, which is made up of layered processes of painting and sculpture. Through these explorations, Wendland seeks to challenge viewers' assumptions about space and place, while casting familiar landscapes into new contexts.

About the Artists

Lisa Bergh earned her BFA in printmaking from the University of Arizona and her MFA in spatial arts from San Jose State University. In addition to her studio practice, she is co-founder of The Traveling Museum, works as an advocate for the rural arts and culture movement, and serves as the executive director for the Hutchinson Center for the Arts in Hutchinson, MN. She resides in the small community of New London, MN, with her husband, painter Andrew Nordin, and their two children. www.lisabergh.com

Lyz Wendland received her MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her BFA in drawing, painting, and art history from Minnesota State University-Mankato. Her work has been exhibited nationally in galleries such as the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, ND, and The Berkeley Art Center in Berkeley, CA. In 2009, Lyz was the recipient of a Jerome Foundation Project Grant through the Textile Center and was a 2016 recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant.