Lisa Kereszi Explained

Lisa Kereszi (born 1973) is an American photographer and professor from Pennsylvania.

Life and work

Kereszi grew up in Pennsylvania where her father owned a junkyard in Trainer and her mother owned and ran an antique store. Kereszi earned a BA from Bard College working with Stephen Shore and others. After graduating from Bard, she began working as an assistant to Nan Goldin. After NYC, she attended Yale University in 2000 to earn an MFA. She has been associated with the university since 2004 as a faculty member.

Her work uses color photography and deals with both fantasy and the idea of home. In the realm of fantasy or "places around the cultural fringe",^[1] her projects have included haunted houses both operating and during daylight hours,^[2] burlesque dancers, and strip clubs. For work about home, she photographed her grandfather's junkyard,^[3] culminating in a book published in 2012 about which The New York Times remarked the junkyard was "a perfect place for an artist to be born."^[4]

She has done commissions for Yale University, ,^[5] and Orion. Her commercial clients include Nike, IBM, and Capitol Records.^[6]

Publications

• Governors Island: Photographs by Lisa Kereszi & Andrew Moore. New York City: Public Art Fund, 2005. .
• Fun and Games. Nazraeli Press, 2009. .
• Joe's Junk Yard. Damiani, 2012. .
• Lisa Kereszi: The More I Learn About Women. J&L Books, 2014. .

Collections

Kereszi's work is held in the following permanent public collections:

• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City^[7]
• Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT^[8]
• Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York City^[9]

External links

• • Lisa Kereszi Representation: Yancey Richardson

Notes and References

1. Web site: Reviews & Articles . Lisa Kereszi . 2016-04-12.
2. News: Maria Lokke . Lisa Kereszi's Haunted Houses . . 2011-10-28 . 2016-04-12.
3. Web site: American dream crushed by tragedy – CNN Photos - CNN.com Blogs . https://web.archive.org/web/20120703173523/http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/29/american-dream-crushed-by-tragedy/ . dead . July 3, 2012 . Cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com . 2016-04-12.
4. News: Joe's Junk Yard by Lisa Kereszi. The New York Times. 18 October 2012 . 2016-04-12. Jennings . Dana .
5. News: Joshua Slideshow. The New York Times. 2016-04-12.
6. Web site: Lisa Kereszi (Artist) in New York, NY (New York) from . Re-title.com . 2016-04-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160410170600/http://re-title.com/artists/Lisa-Kereszi.asp . 2016-04-10 . dead .
7. Web site: All Artists . Whitney Museum of American Art . 2015-05-01 . 2016-04-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160410063840/http://whitney.org/Collection/AllArtists?name=K . 2016-04-10 .
8. News: Take 5: Photographer and art critic Lisa Kereszi. 2014-10-08. YaleNews. 2018-03-29. en.
9. Web site: Lisa Kereszi – American, born 1973 . Brooklyn Museum of Art . 2016-04-12.