About
Gina Lerman AKA Lermworm is a story-teller working in the mediums of painting, illustration, and comics. Her art is a celebration of every-day magic, and an exploration of our natural worlds, our constructed worlds, and our dream worlds. She lives at an intersection of those places in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Lerman is the current Creative Director and Graphic Designer at Motif Magazine. Her work has also appeared in Apiary Magazine, Current Affairs, Milk & Honey Comic Anthology, Means TV, Rust Belt Review, and Urgency Reader.
Her self-published diary comics collection, "Pawtucket Comix" is available to purchase locally and online.
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Select Group Exhibitions
2023 Small Works Show, The Collaborative, Warren, RI.
2023 Pics and Poets: A Night of Visual Verse, Waterfire Arts Center, Providence, RI.
2022 Vibrant Life in the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Art Show, Sprout Coworking, Providence, RI.
2022 Fall Juried Show: TEXT, The Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI.
2022 Printed Copy: Exhibition by Partners and Son, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA.
2022 Summer Juried Show, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA.
2019 Perspectives: A Night of Womxn Artists, Colorspace Labs. Philadelphia, PA.
2018 Posters for Revolution, Philly Socialists HQ. Philadelphia, PA.
2017 Combination Skin, Little Berlin. Philadelphia, PA.
2016 Drexel University Booth, International Contemporary Furniture Fair. New York, NY.
2014 Young Artists Showcase, Mitchell Clinic Gallery. Emmaus, PA.
2013 Annual Senior Art Exhibit, Antonio Salemme Foundation Gallery. Allentown, PA.
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Asleep in the Field of Grass, Drexel Pearlstein Gallery. Philadelphia, PA.
Craft, Small Press, and Zine Fairs
2023 Art in the Jungle, Pawtucket, RI.
2022 Small Press Expo, Bethesda, MD.
2022 PVDfest, Providence, RI.
2021 Art Revolt, Providence, RI.
2020 Quaranzinefest, Online.
2019 Small Press Faire, Philadelphia, PA.
2018 Small Press Expo, Bethesda, MD.
2017 Philalalia, Philadelphia, PA.
In Print
2023 Editorial illustration in multiple issues of Motif Magazine.
2023 Cover art in “Cannabis Issue,” Motif Magazine.
2022 Comic in Volume Four, Rust Belt Review.
2021 Comic in Issue Six, Milk & Honey Comics Anthology.
2020 Editorial illustration in Volume 5, Issue 2, Current Affairs Magazine.
2020 Editorial illustration in Volume 5, Issue 4, Current Affairs Magazine.
2020 Multiple artworks, Crab Conspiracy Anthology.
2020 Comic in "Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis," queer.archive.work.
2020 Comic in "Small Business Tyrants," Street Fight Radio Zine.
2019 Illustration in "Apiary X," Apiary Magazine.
2019 Cover art in “Holding Onto Our Homes,” The Philadelphia Partisan.
2019 Comic in "Dreams," Street Fight Radio Zine.
2018 Comic in Issue Three, Milk & Honey Comics Anthology.
2018 Cover art in "Nation Building,” Street Fight Radio Zine.
2018 Editorial illustration, Antoinette Westphal D&M Magazine.
Awards & Residencies
2021 Featured Artist, Tiny Showcase.
2019 Ghostshrimp Fellow, Hardwick, VT.
2017 Secret Society of Ghostscouts Residency, Hardwick, VT.
2017 Student Merit Award Winner, Industrial Designers Society of America.
2013 Gold Key, Silver Keys, and Juror’s Award, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Teaching & Workshops
2023 Workshop Assistant, Ghostshrimp Classic Online Workshop.
2022 Assistant Teacher, Providence Comics Consortium.
2020-2021 Host, Friday Night Virtual Drawing Party.
2020 Assistant Teacher, Rhode Island Museum of Science and Art.
Press
2023 “Small Artworks Stun at The Collaborative” GoLocalProv.
2023 “On the Cover” Motif Magazine.
2020 “On Going Freelance” She Spends.
2018 “Prodigies of PROD” Drexel D&M Magazine.
2017 “A Future-Focused Co-op Finding New Toy Stories” Antoinette Westphal News.
2015 “Turning Social Media Data Streams into Interactive Art” Drexel News Blog.