LISA K BLATT

Red Sky in Morning

Opening Reception: September 13, 2025

Bruno David is pleased to present Red Sky in Morning, a video-work and related photos by multi-disciplinary San Francisco-based artist Lisa K. Blatt. This is the artist’s eight solo exhibition with the gallery.

Usually, we awaken with the expectation of sunlight or darkness, depending on the time, our location and the season. In rare and expected circumstances, such as an eclipse, day momentarily changes to night. However, on this apocalyptic “orange day” in San Francisco, CA, the birds did not sing, the streetlamps never turned off and the sun was never visible. Rather, there was only a dark burnt orange hue as smoke and ash from raging distant fires blocked the sun.

Lisa K. Blatt lives and works in San Francisco and often camps and shoots in remote, extreme landscapes (Antarctica, Chile, Iceland) as she examines sight and site (both how and what we see) and how one’s perception is mediated by culture, history, media and politics. Blatt’s work has been widely exhibited globally including at the Shanghai Biennial, China; Museo de Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Iceland; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Contemporary Art Platform and Freud Museum, London; Kunstverein Haus, Germany; Northeastern/Mills College Art Museum, Oakland; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; San  Diego International Airport; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC and Sean Kelly, New York.

Blatt has been awarded many grants and residencies including from: the National Science Foundation (Antarctica), NASA and Carnegie Mellon, the Kitteredge Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, The Center for Cultural Innovation Creative Capacity Fund Grant, and the Djerassi Foundation.

Lisa K. Blatt art has been recognized by artists, critics and those committed to making positive changes in the world. NPR interviewed Blatt for the 2018’s UN Global Climate Change Summit; The Carbon Almanac named Blatt an “Influential Climate Artist” (2021); KQED Public Media commissioned + published “At the Edges of Perception, Lisa K. Blatt Redefines Photography” (2018); Cindy Sherman chose and wrote about Blatt for Smithsonian’s “New Stars of Photography” issue. (March 2012); Blatt was an Emory University Rose Library Fellow (2023).