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5.28.2007

Lisa Marie opening this weekend


G Fine Art will open a group show on Saturday that features Jose Ruiz, Vesna Pavlovic, and one of my favorite artists and all-around great gal Lisa Marie Thalhammer. Her show called Welcome to Lizard County consists of a series of drawings based on her memories of working in her family's truck stop when she was a teenager. Lisa Marie is smart and thoughtful - pretty important qualities for an artist to have.

In this new series of work, Thalhammer investigates the underbelly of America’s Highways. Inspired by her experiences in the family’s truck stop, she draws the semi-trucks that brave vast expanses of highways connecting goods and consumers. Alone and lonely, full of desire and intent, this macho trucker world both idealizes women and supports abuse of them. Lot Lizards, a trucker term the title is based on, are prostitutes, who wait in truck stop parking lots. Thalhammer collages images of women from men’s interest magazines as hood ornaments onto the drawings, examining the way feminine beauty is both reverenced and objectified. Appropriated gospel illuminations adorn the drawings, referencing the Bible belt, where the family truck stop was located.

Thalhammer was the recipient of the Young Artist Program Grant Award from the DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities in 2007, and in 2006 the Small Project Programs Grant Award from the DC Commission of the Arts and humanities. She lives and works in Washington DC, and participated in the Exercises for Emerging Artists, which culminated in the show E:3 Painters at Transformer Gallery.

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