Metamorphosis of Painting-B

My painting took another shower yesterday. Is it done?? 

Absolutely!!

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Metamorphosis is for sale

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 36" x 40" Depth 2 3/4

Price $4000

Metamorphosis of Painting-A

Of course it always starts with a blank canvas, then a lot automatic painting-reflection- a shower or two. Then I destroy it, then I create, and then destroy. Reflect-react intuitively-This painting is still in the works.  It kind of nags at me to change it all the time.

The Broken Drum is Transformed with my ART!

Looking for something to do this Friday in the Bay Area? Fourth Street in San Rafael is becoming an ART Hub, this coming Friday they are hosting their Second Fridays San Rafael ART Walk. Danielle from my representing gallery Terra Firma asked me if I would be open to hanging my work in an alternative space. I said Yes! and this Friday at the Second Fridays San Rafael ART Walk you can go view my Art and have some brew at the Broken Drum on Fourth Street right next to Terra Firma, Danielle installed the work today, she said that "the place got a face lift and it looks fab, the owner loves it so much!"

Please check it out this Friday in San Rafael and if you get some beer goggles and fall in love with one of paintings. Go next store to Terra Firma and Danielle will wrap it up for you!

Painting of the Day! Raramuri @ Terra Firma Gallery

"Raramuri is very impressive."

Artist, Vikalp Evolving

I began this piece three years ago. I was inspired by a sacred trip I took to canyons of the Sierra Tarahumara in Mexico. The Raramuri are the indigenous peoples that live there. I created a "tree shrine" there and I felt really connected to the land. You could peel the layers on this painting like an onion. The first layer is a green color field. It is really an exploration of time and space.

Raramuri is exhibiting and ready for a good home at the Terra Firma Gallery in San Rafael.

Please stop by and say hi to Danielle, the Galleries Director and my work!

As always!!! Thank you Danielle for your continuous support!!

Caol Ait!! Painting of the Day

The word Caol Ait (thin places) is a Celtic term that describes space and time.

In certain places like sacred sites or in nature, the veil from this world to the next is thinner.

My paintings are an exploration of Caol Ait or the in between. In the creative process time and space merge and hours can pass with the blink of an eye. Another of my great passions is traveling to sacred sites around the world. In 2008, I went to Ireland (my ancestral homeland) and visited New Grange, Tara and Knowth. True inspiration for my work.

Caol Ait is showing and is looking for a good home in San Rafael at the Terra Firma Gallery.

This amazing painting have perfect companions, the very meaningful,Shona Sculptures and the phenomenal Ethiopian painter, Wosene Kosrof.

Please stop by and say hi to Danielle, the Galleries Director and my work!

As always!!! Thank you Danielle for your continuous support!!

Re visit from 2008 "What are my Goals as an Artist"

This is such a serendipitous question as I graduated on Saturday with my M.F.A. (yes!) and I need to focus on what is the next step and what does that look like.

On my pragmatic page it looks like my need to create a list of goals of what I need to accomplish to “make it” in the art world. I need to put on my business hat and create a website, a marketing strategy, apply to shows and galleries with proper documentation. I have to update my business cards. I have to search for opportunities and it goes on and on. My goals need to be carefully mapped out for me to make it all happen. It is a high-risk business and my product is my art and my grand vision.

My ultimate goal is to be self-sustaining artist creating, selling my work and teaching art. I also want to open a healing arts studio, which I call the Green House Studios. This would be a community space for new paradigm artists and thinkers to build alternative systems in various communities. Ideally it would create an all-inclusive dialogue about art and its ability to empower. This would include art workshops, gallery space, and community outreach art programs. Lauren and I speak about this Blog as the virtual beginnings of such a studio.

For me equally mystifying is my passion for what I am doing.
Pragmatism seems to fly out the window as I create the work that I need to do. I became very comfortable just being a conduit and having creativity flow through me. I have come to believe that I am merely a channel for something greater than me that manifests through my art. As the artist Paul Klee wrote, “the artist does nothing other than gather and pass on what comes to him from the depths. He neither serves nor rules ---- He transmits…. he is merely a channel.”
My personal quest is to reunite art and the spirit. Akin to the alchemist’s work, which is the transformation of gross material into spiritual substance, I see my art as artifacts of my ever-transforming consciousness. My art and its process represent a humble quest to resurrect divination in my personal journey and into the community at large. As an artist my work gives the viewer a personal glimpse of my internal revelations.I speak of divination in its broadest sense, meaning that through my art and process I find myself in a continuum of discovering the unknown within myself and in the world that I live in. The motives and impulses behind my creative process are my shamanistic belief that through the process of creation, I align with dynamism and the divinity that is animated in all life.
Another goal of my work is revelation. I believe the core social issue that I am exploring in my painting, photography, site-specific works, and my teaching is abuse, which plagues society and the planet Earth. My approach to this work is not criticism, but a gentle revelation of what was and what can be. In all my work I explore and reveal the shadow of humanity by facing it, bringing it to surface, and on a personal level, finding a way to transform it.

To surmise, essentially my goal as an artist is the marriage of the paradox between pragmatism and pure creativity. As well as my service to the world at large. On an interpersonal level one could say that my art is my Yoga, the discipline that promotes the unity within myself. Carl Jung called this individuation.
I apologize for this got a little wordy.
Namaste, Lisa
I am interested in hearing what are your goals as an artist? And how do you keep one foot in each world to make Art your life and profession?

Save The Arts Benefit

Save The Arts Benefit

Caol' Ait (thin places)

Acrylic on Canvas

Starting Bid $400

Value $1300

I have donated one of my paintings to this amazing and important fundraiser!

Education is the civil rights issue of our time. Come join us in our efforts to save

the arts in education and give our children the well-rounded educational experience that they need and deserve if they're to compete in the 21st century.

Please join us this Saturday June 11th!

and

acquire my painting, the money goes to a very important, empowering, and beneficial cause.

ART=FREEDOM

and all children must have the right to experience ART.

For more information and to buy a ticket for this event go to Save The heArts Benefit

Interview @ Room Gallery!!

Here is an interview, that I did at the amazing ROOM Gallery in San Rafael,CA were I exhibit and sell my paintings. Below the video is the body of work that you can see and acquire at ROOM Gallery. Ask for Agne or Chelsea. Thank you Agne!! ROOM's visionary owner.

Raramuri

I began this piece three years ago. I was inspired by a sacred trip I took to canyons of the Sierra Tarahumara in Mexico. The Raramuri are the indigenous peoples that live there. I created a "tree shrine" there and I felt really connected to the land. You could peel the layers on this painting like an onion. The first layer is a green color field.
Size :24” x 36”
Dept 2 ¾ “
Medium: A crylic on Canvas
Price: 1900

Pneuma (Means Spirit)

Size :24” x 36”
Dept 2 ¾ “
Medium: A crylic on Canvas
Price: 1900

Maya

This is a very rich canvas with a brilliant red and gold layers. Maya is the principal deity that manifests, perpetuates and governs the illusion and dream of duality in the phenomenal Universe. For some mystics, this manifestation is real.[1] Each person, each physical object, from the perspective of eternity, is like a brief, disturbed drop of water from an unbounded ocean. The goal of enlightenment is to understand this — more precisely, to experience this: to see intuitively that the distinction between the self and the Universe is a false dichotomy. The distinction between consciousness and physical matter, between mind and body (refer bodymind), is the result of an unenlightened perspective
Size 36” x 40” x 23/8
11/2010
$2000

Caol Ait

Caol Ait is a Celtic idea meaning "thin places" and refers to when the physical world and spiritual world come together and the boundary between them is indefinable.
Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 48” x 36’ x 2 3/8
$4000

Illumanation (Wall)

Acrylic on Canvas
30” x 40”
$1900

Phoenix Rising

A journey painting that is layers of compositions. The process was a creation and destruction. Finally this one came to life i.e. Phoenix Rising.
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size : 24” x 36” x 2 ¾ “
Price: 1500

Wu Wei

One of Taoism’s most important concepts is wu wei, which is sometimes translated as “non-doing” or “non-action.”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size : 24” x 36” x 2 ¾ “
Price: $1300

Prana (Breath in Yoga)

Acrylic on Canvas
Size 24” x 36’ x 2/38
$1500

Lucidity

a presumed capacity to perceive the truth directly and instantaneously
Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24” 36”
$1300

New ART @ ROOM Fine Art Gallery

Three of my latest paintings, that are an interpersonal exploration of the in between or the betwixt. You can view and acquire them at ROOM Fine Art Gallery gallery in San Rafael, CA. I feel all three are very mysterious and very powerful canvas's.

This was has gotten some amazing international comments on my Saatchi online gallery.

Raramuri
Acrylic on Canvas
40" x 36"
I began this piece three years ago. I was inspired by a sacred trip I took to canyons of the Sierra Tarahumara in Mexico. The Raramuri are the indigenous peoples that live there. I created a "tree shrine" there and I felt really connected to the land. You could peel the layers on this painting like an onion. The first layer is a green color field.

Pneuma
Acrylic on Canvas
24" x 36"
Depth 3"
Pneuma is a dark canvas with a lot of layers and light. The meaning pf Pneuma is "breath" and in a religious context for "spirit" or "soul"


Illumination
Acrylic on Canvas
40: x 36"
This is very layered piece. There is probably five completed paintings under each layer. It is a process of going from the dark into the light.