Robin Lasser is an artist who uses her artistic vision to bring to light issues. These issues can be anything from global issues that people around the world face to issues very specific to a certain place. She inspired me to use my artistic views to bring to light the issue of homelessness in the US as well as close to Eugene, Oregon. Lasser a Professor of Art and Coordinator of the Photography Program at San José State University. As well as being an art professor she works with different organizations around the world to bring attention to issues.
Looking through the many projects that Lasser has done, the variety and sense of knowledge she shares is incredible.
Dress Tents: This exhibition was made to bring to light the modes of female representation and using and using the land and the body as sites of seduction is a whimsical and fun way.
Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture: This exhibition explores the personal, cultural and historical pieces of eating disorders. It combines narratives and visuals to show personal experience and cultural ignorance of this issue.
Floating World: This exhibition is installed over river on a bridge which is part of a road and the air around it that supports migration of humans, birds and fish. This helps bring to attention the issues with this river and the relationship between earth, animal and human.
San Francisco Sanitary Fill Project: This exhibition is a way to take trash and make it into art. There is an art and residency program at this sanitary fill and is the only one in the entire country. The project brings to life that some peoples trash is another persons treasure.
Artists at the Rock: Fire Photographic series: This exhibition brings to light Alcatraz, Arson and Graffiti of those who are incarcerated. She shows fire at many different places to show these ideas.
Dirty Dining Installation: Consuming Landscapes: This exhibition mimics how our culture projects its own wants and needs on the land to justify its issues. They place 8 foot tall utensils in landscapes to show figurative and literal ideas.
Fatal Intersection of Nature and Culture: This exhibition shows Lassers concern with the environment and how humans make an impact on the environment around them.
How’s My Mothering?: This exhibition brings to light the dread Lasser had about becoming a mother and her lack of motherly instincts prior to having children. It is a fun interesting set of photos.
Candlelight Vigil: This exhibition was for eating disorder awareness week in 2003. 1 out of 4 women in our colleges have an eating disorder and Lasser put together this exhibition to bring it to attention.
