Artist Statement
Artist Statement
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A forgotten bunch of bludgeoned Bananas, a bent-up collection of Safety Pins, Shocking Power outlets, and Peeling-Product Stickers — these useful items are familiar harbingers of daily living under contemporary capitalism. Perhaps you left your Bananas out too long while waiting for the perfect ripeness, or you pricked yourself on a pin while looking for a paperclip, or you just can’t get that little pesky price sticker off no matter how much you gunk your fingernail up trying.
Izzy Losskarn makes art about that — that way that capitalism unjustly drives and divides culture along lines of race and gender, that way that capitalism keeps us too busy to eat our bananas before they rot, or wonder about the history of brand icons like Miss Chiquita — the woman who popularized the layman’s favorite yellow fruit. Losskarn makes big, hyperrealistic pastel drawings which visually phrase questions like these with a subtle and sophisticated cadence; each drawing of hers is a work of color theory and visual metaphor that offers a calculated feminist critique of gender, sex, and contemporary popular culture.
IZZY LOSSKARN IS BANANAS
IZZY LOSSKARN IS BANANAS
Isabella Losskarn (b. 1999, Charlotte, NC) is a pastel artist, researcher, and writer who uses visual metaphor to criticize the intersection of capitalism, sex, and gender. Her hyper-realistic pastel artworks of strange, oftentimes absurd, and decidedly incorrect pop-culture product interactions have been exhibited in a number of institutions across the United States, including Pen + Brush Gallery (NY), Goodyear Arts (NC), the Spartanburg Art Museum (SC), the LaGrange Art Museum (GA), the Ormond Memorial Art Museum (FL) and Revolve Gallery (NC).
Losskarn received a BFA in Drawing from UNC Asheville in 2021, and received an MFA from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the UGA in May 2026.
Working exclusively from her own artist-captured reference photographs, she collects, uses, and spends careful time with each of the objects seen in her drawings before they are placed in a composition and photographed as reference material. The regular study of contemporary scholarship on the intersections of pop culture, capitalism, and gender research, guides Losskarn's studio practice, allowing each of her pastel paintings the ability to pull from a large database of common experiences in gender and sex as she bends objects, images, and color to pointedly address the multifaceted fallacies of Western capitalist culture.
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