Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Lisa Frank

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Madison, WI
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

Lisa A. Frank constructs complex patterns and tableaux from her close-range photography. Based on early natural history painting, she began a new series depicting zoological subjects as they adapt to changes in their environment.

Studios

Nef

Lisa Frank worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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