Artist Statement:

My work is about the disconnection women can experience to their bodies by complying with standards of beauty and acceptability that are imposed upon them in western culture. These standards are determined by the dominant culture and problematize bodies that don’t satisfy these standards. This failure to satisfy these standards are then remedied with modifications to the body. These modifications come in the form of consumer products that require time as well as money to execute. 

In my work I reference the historical nude, female sexuality, and body objectification. Color is used as a strategy to convey gender and the privilege given to a caucasian appearance. I use pattern as a way of addressing the labor required in presenting one’s appearance, and the removal of individuality in western beauty standards. 

Biography:

Lisa Roggenbuck received her MFA from Boise State University in 2020. Her work has since been published in New American Paintings, Sfumato Art Creatives, & Women United Art Magazine.

Roggenbuck’s research in the objectification of women has gain recognition from art critic David Pagel with a second place juried award. Her paintings have gone on to receive the Distinguished Thesis & Project Award for the Creative, Visual, & Performing Arts, and the Presidential Scholar Award in Performing & Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited with Lore Degenstein Gallery at Susquehanna University, Visionary Art Collective from Brooklyn, NY, & has also been featured at the York Art Gallery in the UK.

Roggenbuck currently teaches painting and drawing as an adjunct professor of visual art at Boise State University.