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Israeli artist Lisa Gross finds possibilities in everyday materials
By Lisa Kingstone, Jweish Ledger Weekly Newsletter, January 2005
"Living in Tel Aviv, it is easy to find the materials for her work because "Israel is full of junk." Anything she is able to envision in her art will do: old leather gloves, cardboard in the rain with the soft layers exposed, the mudguards of a bicycle, an old folding porch chair, crushed tin cans, and (because she's in Israel), parts from date palms..."
Lisa Gross at the Hankin Gallery of Design, municipality of Holon
By Noah Gross, New Lease on Life exhibition brochure, November 2004
"For the past seven years Lisa Gross has been experimenting with discarded everyday materials in her studio in Azur, Israel, where she transformes found objects and materials no longer in use into sculpture. These works then take on new personalities often with attitudes..."
Lisa Gross
By Rivka Eliav, 2004
"It all begins with collecting materials and castoffs. Lisa discovers treasures in fields, parking lots and garages, beauty lying in the street. She collects, sorts and shelves pieces of wood, headlights, auto parts, brushes, castings, bottle stoppers, and the like. Every piece of debris sparks the imagination, sets off novel associations. Meanwhile they lie waiting for their time to come. Suddenly, in a flash, an idea crystallizes and she takes a fragment perhaps a missing limb or appendage, studies it from all directions, chooses the angle suitable to the figure or subject and with it creates a new creature..."
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