Somania Open House at Lizland March 29, 2013

Lizland started life as Superior Sandblasting in the 1920's. It is now stocked to the rafters with paintings, drawings and reclaimed materials of all ilk that provide the fodder for Liz Mamorsky's robotic sculpture. Some light up and are functional as in the unique tables, lamps and clocks, while others, such as the Artbots exist for their own weird sculptural sake.

Open Studio is a great opportunity to visit this "adult's playhouse" and explore the vast array of stuff including circuit boards, keyboards, antique wooden foundry patterns, license plates, stroboscopic timing wheels, CDs, buttons, RAM, hard drive platters, meat platters, cutting boards, modems, wooden shoe trees, step motors, bakelite mahjong racks, etc. You name it, Lizland's got it!

Liz's sculpture practice deconstructed:
"Though trained as a painter at Bennington College in Vermont, where I worked with Paul Feeley, my sculpture was all self taught. There were no rules, so I could do anything I wanted. I haunted hardware stores, scrap yards and thrift shops looking for wonderful, wacky elements and hardware that would join them together. One of my first finds were binder rings in different sizes. These were great for assembling my early robotic wall sculptures - sort of life-size paper dolls made of circuit boards. Using binder rings and eye screws I could assemble and disassemble these pieces easily for shipping. My joinery now is more complex and always evolving. The antique wooden foundry patterns employed in many of the works are from the Bethlehem and Mare Island Naval Shipyards. Used in the repair of the Liberty Ships in WWII, they contain the original signage and metal ID tags, and often, the names of the ships they were used for."

Liz will be discussing her work, 6-10 at this one-night Open House and Mel Knox will be pouring his Italian varietal Uvaggio wines.

5 other studios within walking distance are also open for viewing. Map available at LIZLAND.

Official Website: http://www.lizland.com