Lisa Clague

The distinctive figurative sculpture by Lisa Clague hovers between fantasy and reality –- playful, mysterious, contemplative. “My work evokes a place between the subconscious and the intangible,” she notes. “My masked figures are hybrid creatures, mistresses of ambiguity and disguise, of seduction and deception. These images, like dreams, are familiar but illusive.

“Dreams compress and heighten reality. They may bring delightful fantasy or feverish fear. Fusion of overlaying images reflects desire, anxiety and the poetic lure of many inner worlds. Fairytales, childhood games and masks, hallucinations, ghosts, insects, animals, bones and worms are all images in a passageway between what is dreamt, what is lived, what is remembered and what is to come.”

The figures are rendered in white-ware and then treated with stains, oxides and wax. Metal, glass and/or wood are added components to complete the sculpture.

Clague received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her Master of Fine Art degree from California College of Arts and Crafts. She received an Agnes Gund Traveling Scholarship. Her work has been exhibited at Macon Museum of Art in Georgia and DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Massachusetts.