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Lisi Raskin's Armada

The Blanton Museum of Art
by Claire Ruud

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      Lisi Raskin
      Armada (installation view)
      2009
      Wood, paint
      Courtesy The Blanton Museum of Art

      Lisi Raskin’s Armada was formally sexy (oh, the soft peaks of those mountains) and amusingly site-specific. In Texas, the figure of the artist questing through the landscape of the American west appears often (Peat Duggins, Jonathan Marshall and Barry Stone come to mind), but rarely the questing woman. Armada did not picture the artist's body, but evoked it through scale; the space of Raskin’s installation stood at the intersection of great American landscape and modernist stage set—consummate spaces of performance. CR

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