Lisa Aslanian

LISA ASLANIAN is a freelance writer focusing on contemporary political art and lives in Laguna and Los Angeles.

Her current fascination is rap and reggae as politically charged sonic resistance.

Recent projects include curatorial pieces and critical appraisals of contemporary Central American artists. She has critiqued painters who offer lush visual commentary on our 24/7 news-as-entertainment culture and feminist art that interrogates femininity and its’ subversion. She has also explored the installations, videos, drawings and paintings of Salvadorian multi-media artists whose work grapples with the violent fallout of a protracted civil war. Closer to home, she has written, taught and lectured on the fraught relationship between liberalism and homoerotic art.

She received her Ph.D. from The New School for Social Research in 2006.