Lisha Bai
View Through the Porthole, 2023

piecework linen fabric
34 inches diameter (framed)

ARTIST BIO

Lisha Bai is a New York based artist who focuses on sculpture and installation art. Her sun-soaked window, rendered in soft textiles, creates the interior architecture of an imagined seaside room. In this particular work, she drew inspiration from the traditional architecture of Shinnecock Hills homes and views overlooking the Peconic Bay. She knowingly plays off of modernist tropes of illusionism and trompe l’oeil with an interest in traditional Korean stitching. “While the new curtain pieces are a shift from my sand works, I have always been interested in illusionism and materiality in painting,” says Bai. “I want to create the illusion of a pictorial space while calling attention to the works in the show’s materiality. I’m fascinated by how one is often lost in favor of the other, then toggles back.”

Bai lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from Yale School of Art.

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