Liss Platt

Multi-media artist, Liss Platt, creates artworks through an integrative approach utilizing video, film, photography (digital and analog), installation, performance, sculpture, web art, and a variety of printmaking disciplines. As she describes,

“in the broadest sense [her work] revolves around an exploration of the complex processes by which individuals become constituted as subjects”. Through a combination of personal narrative, critical analysis, gender politics and strategies of appropriation, my work examines how representations and discourses shape an understanding of ourselves in the world.”

Liss Platt’s printmaking practice engages photographic (both digital and traditional) and analog print processes such as silkscreen. The breadth of materials, techniques, and forms encompassed within the wide-ranging scope of ‘printmaking’ is well aligned with Liss’ versatile approach to artmaking: the ideas, issues and desired expression that each unique project explores determines the particular medium used.

Platt’s work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions across Canada and the United States.
Select solo-exhibitions include presentations at McMaster Museum of Art,
Hamilton ON; MKG127, Toronto ON; Rodman Hall Art Centre, St. Catherines ON; and
Stride Gallery in Calgary AB.  Her performance and film/video works have
been featured at Struts Gallery, Sackville NB and Documenta Madrid
respectively. Platt has received several grants from the Ontario Arts Council
and Canada Council, and in 2012 was awarded a career achievement award in
visual arts from the City of Hamilton.