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Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe
Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe is a classically trained artist with extensive studies in art history. Her work is recognized for minimalist, methodical patterns, squares, and self portraiture. Her sculptures focus on constructed objects and the space created by them. She works primarily in plastic and production of multiples. Preoccupations include hex numbering systems and colors, and Blue Skies. Influences include early Minimalism and the Light and Space Movement.
Separate from her art and related art projects, Lissa’s professional nonprofit and advocacy career spans decades, from the 1990s to present. She has championed arts and cultural initiatives for leading national arts and humanities organizations and has advanced equitable access to arts and humanities in Washington, DC. Board service includes National Cherry Blossom Festival and the Arts Lab of South County.
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Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe
Nothing But Blueskiesfromnowon
Hot and Delicious
New Series Feature:
AI generated prints on paper, acrylic, stainless steel
New series on view during Women’s History Month at:
“Thoughts, Questions and Shit to Say"
Women's History Month Exhibition at Dupont Underground March 8- April 7.
“Women” group show at Arts Lab of South County March 1-30.
In my series ‘Hot and Delicious’ I grapple with the question, "What does it mean to be a woman anyway?" Each panel, a self-portrait amidst pizza boxes, intertwines themes of sustenance, consumption, and desire, reflecting on the multifaceted nature of womanhood.
As I delve into the familiar yet complex imagery of pizza—an everyday common symbol of nourishment, quick and indulgent—I ponder the roles and expectations assigned to me. The empty pizza boxes become the often unseen depths of experience: what is left when the traditional roles of nurturing are fulfilled, and what desires and identities lie beneath?
The repetitive pattern of my face across these panels is a meditation on this question. It represents the cyclical nature of our roles as providers and consumers, the constant negotiation with societal narratives around our desires and appetites. This piece is my personal exploration of the dualities we embody—the nurturing and the desirous, the comforting and the condemning.
By presenting “Hot and Delicious”, I'm inviting the viewer to consider the complexities the patterns the dualities of desire and consumption— repetitiveness — am I still hot and delicious? Can one have too much Pizza? Too many women? It's a dialogue that goes beyond the surface, delving into the richness of our repetition and pattern, challenging the constraints.
In this artwork, the pizza emerges as a powerful symbol of this duality: a source of sustenance that's also an object of desire, often enjoyed yet paradoxically critiqued. It’s a metaphor for the complexities of womanhood—the balance between being a source of comfort and embracing our own appetites. A deeper understanding of the conflicted nature of cravings through repetition — what can be hot and delicious over and over again and again.