Lisa Diane Wedgeworth
Lisa Diane Wedgeworth is an African-American visual artist, curator, and writer. Her work encompasses abstract painting, video, and performance works.
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- Los Angeles, CA, USA
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About Lisa Diane Wedgeworth
Lisa Diane Wedgeworth is an African-American visual artist, curator, and writer. Her work encompasses abstract painting, video, and performance works.
Lisa Diane Wedgeworth is an African-American visual artist, curator, and writer. Her work encompasses abstract painting, video, and performance works. She has been a teaching artist at several Los Angeles-area museums, including the California African American Museum, the Craft and Folk Art Museum, and LACMA. She earned her B.A. in studio art from California State University, Los Angeles, in 2002, and her M.F.A. in Studio Art from the same institution in 2014. In an interview with the magazine Curator in 2018, Wedgeworth cited childhood visits to the Barnsdall Art Park in the 1970s and 80s, and the Candice Bergen-narrated commercials for the Norton Simon Museum, as early influences. She also cites Lezley Saar, daughter of Betye Saar, as well as painter Suzanne Jackson and "outsider/self-taught artists." Wedgeworth's work is in the permanent collection of the California African American Museum.
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Lisa Diane Wedgeworth is based in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
When was Lisa Diane Wedgeworth born?
Lisa Diane Wedgeworth was born in 1969.
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Lisa Diane Wedgeworth is from American.