Lisa Marie Thalhammer is a visual artist born off the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Louis MO. While in Catholic school, she worked as a waitress at her family-owned truck plaza. The heroines portrayed in her visual art works deconstruct conventional notions of gender, identify and power.
Lisa Marie’s recent exhibitions include Welcome to Lizard County at G Fine Arts; Sass at Transformer; Don’t Fear for the Future Sweetness curated by SunTek Chung at Gallery 5; and Time Machine, Curated by Amelia Winger-Bearskin for the Perpetual Art Machine [PAM]. Recent art fairs include Aqua Art Miami Beach, ArtDC and PULSE New York.
After studying art at the Art Institute of Chicago and Staffordshire University in Stoke-on-Trent England, Lisa Marie received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting with Honors and a Women Studies Minor from the University of Kansas in 2003. Selected awards included the Amsden Award, the Hollander Family Foundation Award, the Daniel Macmorris Scholarship, the Warner Ferguson Service Scholarship and the Jacobs Prize.
She left the midwest in search of international travel. After hiking the Tiger Leaping Gorge, train rides later she landed in Washington DC where she currently lives and works. Since her arrival Lisa Marie has been the recipient of a Public Art Building Communities grant award and three Young Artist Program grant awards from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Lisa Marie’s work has been featured in multiple publications including the Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Washington Life Magazine, DC Modern Luxury Magazine and Cultureserve.net. She has also appeared the cover of the Washington Blade.
When she is not in the studio, Lisa Marie creates educational programs for the Ellipse Arts Center, in Arlington Virginia. Lisa Marie is also a Co-organizer of Girls Rock!DC, a volunteer ran non-profit with a focus on music education.
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