Gallery With A Cause • Located in the New Mexico Cancer Center • Benefitting the NMCC Foundation
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Artist Statement
Although my paintings represent the idea of landscapes I approach my artwork largely through abstraction. After years of painting more traditional landscapes, I have been feeling the urge to paint in a more immediate, personal, even emotional manner.
I had been brought-up in the 1960’s with a love of modern art when my father began art school at UNM. I was ten. That early experience of abstract art up close and the intensity of the times always beckoned me to investigate and see the exquisite perfection of discovered composition. Having grown up in New Mexico I am able to invent familiar landforms out of experience and memory. With the use of vibrant color, I seek to create a reality of place, sometimes out of fields of color clearly edged and distilled in form, while at other time I use color more painterly allowing the colors to flow into each other creating interest out of proximity.
The tension in my styles of painting confirms my approach to art as a place of experimentation and a journey of continued understanding into the use of medium and my conceptualization of composition.
Biography
Lisa Zawadzki, born and still living in Albuquerque, has painted for over twenty years, beginning as a student of pastel landscapes, progressing to teach herself the use of acrylics and later expanding into recycle art where she explores abstraction and finds the encouragement of community. When Lisa moved into recycled cardboard constructions and newsprint collage, she found herself absorbed by form and abstraction and she decided to take her acrylic painting in that direction. It brought her full circle to the ways in which modern dance had taught her to use form and movement, speed, and transition to create interest in a ‘body’ of work when she was a college student at UNM.
Throughout her artistic endeavors Lisa has taken time to devote effort towards participating in the Albuquerque arts community. She was a member of the Bernalillo County Arts Council and as a member of the Thursday Art Group curated shows and organized receptions for other artists as well as showing her own work. Lisa has shown at venues including Tortuga Gallery, The Corrales Old Church, the Albuquerque Art Showcase and for several years at the Recycle Santa Fe Arts Festival.
