EDUCATION BFAThe School at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1988REPRESENTATIONFresh Paint Art Advisors, Los Angeles, CaliforniaBIOGRAPHYLisa is a recognized abstract painter whose work is internationally recognized and collected. From her earliest memory, becoming an artist was clear and...
Read MoreEDUCATION BFA
The School at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1988
REPRESENTATION
Fresh Paint Art Advisors, Los Angeles, California
BIOGRAPHY
Lisa is a recognized abstract painter whose work is internationally recognized and collected. From her earliest memory, becoming an artist was clear and unwavering. Her love for painting developed early in her career and continues to be her method and passion. Born in Michigan in 1964, then moving to Chicago to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago earning her BFA in 1988. After nearly twenty years of working as an artist in Chicago, Lisa relocated to Denver transforming a warehouse into an art space and gallery in the River North Arts District. Lisa has now found her home in Santa Cruz, California with her husband, a sculptor. Lisa is included in collections worldwide and has completed major commission projects in Singapore, Dubai, Bangkok and London.
ARTIST STATEMENT Everything in life inspires me, not quite with direct interpretation, but as I see and experience faces, words, gestures, colors, and shapes—all of it—I am always looking and reacting to the energy around me. Rather than reflecting on grand issues that require objective answers, it can become a self-centered reflection of whatever piques my interest. All of this gets channeled and flows from brain to arm, hitting the whiteboard with that first wonderful stroke of vibrant color, and continues with adding and subtracting, stripping down to the most essential. I am in love with the eloquence of sparseness, everything to do with the act of painting: the smell, the lushness of oil paint, and color. There is unmitigated spontaneity driven by emotive forces, reacting intuitively. Chance and choice. The works are not meant to be narrative but visual explorations. These explorations evoke sensations in the viewer that are not bounded by the literal but can be broadly identified as physical, spiritual, or psychological reactions. Painting titles are personal associations. I try to work with a straightforward painter's vocabulary without pretension. I'm not interested in postmodern irony or intellectualizing about painting. My methods of line and stroke are deliberate, intuitively unidentified. I don't labor over works in progress. If they trouble me, they need to be set aside while I move on to the next piece. This keeps several paintings in process; the momentum keeps ideas clear. Logic and intuition are always shifting and struggling between what will be viewed and holding onto my pure intention.
