Graduate Symposium on Sensory Loss with Liza Sylvestre

Liza Sylvestre is an American visual artist born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is known for detailed abstract mixed media paintings and drawings. Her current work explores new media such as installation and video art. Much of her work revolves around our sensory perceptions and misconceptions of the world. Her incubator project engaged her own deafness as a condition that is sensory as much as it is cultural and political. Working with professors Gordon Legge and Peggy Nelson of the…