With her roots in theatre and folk art, Lisa Bagwell's witty found-object sculptures have a dramatic flair while also being highly accessible as social commentary. She appropriates the detritus of mass consumerist society in the hopes of drawing attention to social and commercial excesses and shortsightedness. She brings small pieces together which would never have come together in their previous incarnations as the utilitarian props of our lives, and makes them vital parts of her art. There is a narrative within these sculptures, as the individual fragments--the little bottles, packages, their colors and shapes--are kept more or less intact. Lisa is interested in sculpting with these objects "as is" and ferrying their meaning over from their previous world to this new one as vital fragments for her art.

The political urgency of her works reaches the viewer through their complexity as well as their wit. Environmentalism at odds with consumer culture--this is the tension implied in Lisa Bagwell’s work; she is putting the pieces together for us