RECLAIM

ABOUT THE WORK
Through mixed-media paintings and paper installations, Wendland explores the belief that trauma —when faced and reshaped—can become a source of resilience, strength, and even beauty. Her work portrays the intricacies of healing, shared through her personal experience of abuse and trauma. She invites the viewer to contemplate how beauty and wholeness can emerge from what was once broken.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyz Wendland (she/hers) is a visual artist living and working in the Twin Cities. She received her MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her BFA from Minnesota State University, Mankato. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally, including the Berkeley Art Center in Berkeley, California and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum in Gimpo, South Korea.

Wendland is a mixed media artist working in paint, collage, digital illustration, installation and natural inks. She has been the recipient of a Jerome Foundation Project Grant and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. She has received numerous faculty development grants and fellowships for her research on improving critique participation, color theory and sustainability. Currently, Wendland is an Associate Professor of Art & Design at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Lyz Wendland