Deb Lacusta is a multi-disciplinary artist, working primarily in video performance and photography, but also incorporating writing and sculpture in her practice. Her performance work comes directly out of her background in theater. She has specifically studied and taught “Improvisation for the Theater,” created by Viola Spolin, making use of game structures (such as mirroring, repetition, etc.) in her video performances. So that idea of “play” and being “in the moment,” so primary to improvisation, becomes an important aspect of the work. She directed, wrote, and starred in the improvisationally-based art film STARRING MARLON BRANDO, as well as the festival-winning zoom-noir THE LONG ISOLATION. Her video performance work has been seen at the UCLA Hammer Museum, MOCA North Miami, P.S.1 MOMA New York, Art Basel Miami Beach, Vendanta Gallery in Chicago, Bart Wells Institute/London, and Deitch Projects in New York. Born In Detroit, Deb has received her MFA from Art Center College of Design, BFA from Otis College of Art, and BGS from the University of Michigan. She has also written for the theater, and television, penning numerous episodes of "The Simpsons."
