Lisa M. Robinson graduated cum laude from Columbia University, and
received her MFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art
and Design. After moving to New York, she became printing assistant
for George Tice. Awards include a Fulbright Grant, as well as “Curator’s
Choice” at the Houston Center of Photography Membership Exhibition
and the “Top 50 Photographers” chosen by Critical Mass. She has
been an Artist-in-Residence at Light Work, and was recently selected
as the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fellow at the MacDowell Colony.
Snowbound has been exhibited internationally in Argentina, Syria,
Lithuania, Denmark, Uruguay, Chile and Bolivia. Her work is in such
collections as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of
Photographic Arts, San Diego; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art;
and Fidelity Investments. Lisa M. Robinson was recently nominated
for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant.
For five winters, the young American photographer Lisa M. Robinson
made photographs in the snow. Snowbound depicts landscapes in which
everyday objects – alienated and sunken in snow- civilize the natural
surroundings. Traces of human existence set accents in the white
landscape, delimiting it and often popping up in an amusing or
incongruous way. A lonely hammock, a trampoline or a swimming pool
are echoes of both summers past and of personal memories. But
Lisa M. Robinson is not interested in showing the obvious; instead,
the photographs make use of the many aggregate states of water –
ice, snow, fog, water – as metaphors for life and transience.
