LITA ALBUQUERQUE, Visual Artist

Artist Studio Visit

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Saturday, September 18, 2004

In this guided tour through glass books and honey boxes, pigment paintings, auric fields, star maps and sculptures, Lita Albuquerque spoke about her meditations and creative process in relation to her cosmological vision as realized through her ephemeral and public art works. She discussed with the group the personal and mythic symbology inherent in her works via the paintings, sculptures, print works and models in her studio. Lita also presented a slide lecture that illustrated the development of her career over the past three decades and showed models of her public art projects currently in development both locally across the U.S.

LITA ALBUQUERQUE is an internationally renowned installation and environmental artist, painter, and sculptor. She has developed a visual language that brings the realities of vast time and space to a human scale and is widely known for her ephemeral works and public art. She gained national attention in the late seventies with her ephemeral powdered pigment installations pertaining to mapping, identity and the cosmos, executed in the natural landscape.

In 1980 Albuquerque won international acclaim for her installation, "The Washington Monument Project," for the International Sculptural Conference. This led to numerous awards and commissions at sites, including the Great Pyramids, where she represented the U.S. at the International Cairo Biennale and received the Biennale Prize. Albuquerque has completed numerous site specific, ephemeral projects over the past two decades including works in the South Dakota badlands, Death Valley, deserts and sand dunes. Her work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions and is widely collected. She also teaches at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.

Lita Albuquerque in her studio

Lita's studio

Linda Lundell

Lita