Lisa Lockman
Misplaced features pieces of a variety of media and holds a very personal meaning for Lockman. She describes it as her Ancestry Project, born from her curiosity about her female ancestors. Being able to trace her male ancestry back multiple generations, Lockman began this project in order to fill in the missing names of her many great-grandmothers.
The title of this exhibition Misplaced comes from testimony of Lockman's third great grandmother, Mary Ann Bennington, trying to prove her marriage to Stephen O. Lockman after his death so she could receive the widow's pension owed her. Since she could not produce a wedding certificate, two family members testified on her behalf to having been present at the wedding ceremony. The piece Agatha is named for Lockman's eighth great grandmother. Her first name was discovered by Lockman through the birth record of her son, George Bauer, who was born on February 7, 1669 in Zuttlingen, Heilbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg. Agatha is only one name of 256 grandmothers Lockman found in that entire generation.