Lena Wolff is an interdisciplinary visual artist, craftswoman and activist for democracy. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area since the early 1990’s, her practice extends out of American folk art and craft traditions, while at the same time being connected to minimalism, geometric abstraction, Op art, social practice and feminist art. Her interconnected artistic output includes drawing, collage, sculpture, murals, text-based pieces, embroidery, public projects and performance. After the 2016 presidential election, Wolff generated several projects to contribute to public dialog and civic engagement. In 2017 she designed and co-created the ‘Berkeley Stands United Against Hate’ poster with designer Lexi Visco that has been reproduced over 200,000 times for 10 Bay Area cities, in addition to a series of nationally distributed VOTE posters made in both 2018 and 2020. Her work has been presented in galleries and museums across the United States and collected by the One Archive, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Alameda County Arts Commission, the Cleveland Clinic, the University of Iowa Museum and the Zuckerman Museum of Art. She lives with her wife, artist, teacher and illustrator, Miriam Klein Stahl and their daughter in Berkeley, California.

[Provided by artist via email, D. McCurdy, 11/23/20]