Residences, Italy, Firenze, 23 June 2009
Born in 1973 in Chester, Pennsylvania Lisa Kereszi graduated from Bard College in 1995, and in 2000 received a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale University School of Art.
Her work can be found in many private collections and museum collections including, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery. Her editorial work has appeared in books and magazines such as, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York, Harper’s, W, The London Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Details, etc. Fantasies, her book, was recently released by Damani Editore and she has an upcoming release from Nazraeli Press in Spring 2009.
“I often photograph empty interiors and details in them, and focus on places of entertainment and fantasy. Such places include movie theratres, resort,motels, bars, strip clubs, night clubs, haunted houses, rides at amusements parks, to name a few. The pictures depict spaces devoid of partecipants, full of empty stools, hangers,stages. Sometimes the places are abandoned, sometimes they just appear that way. I can see where the fantasy fails, however, in the décor. When you look at a nocturnal place in the light of day, it looks strange. Reality becomes surreal. I am interested in that point when things fall apart.”
Her work can be found in many private collections and museum collections including, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery. Her editorial work has appeared in books and magazines such as, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York, Harper’s, W, The London Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Details, etc. Fantasies, her book, was recently released by Damani Editore and she has an upcoming release from Nazraeli Press in Spring 2009.
“I often photograph empty interiors and details in them, and focus on places of entertainment and fantasy. Such places include movie theratres, resort,motels, bars, strip clubs, night clubs, haunted houses, rides at amusements parks, to name a few. The pictures depict spaces devoid of partecipants, full of empty stools, hangers,stages. Sometimes the places are abandoned, sometimes they just appear that way. I can see where the fantasy fails, however, in the décor. When you look at a nocturnal place in the light of day, it looks strange. Reality becomes surreal. I am interested in that point when things fall apart.”
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