Super excited to have my webpage up and running at Terra Firma Gallery in San Rafael. I am looking for some awesome Art Collectors to acquire my work. Please contact Daniel at Terra Firma Gallery  for more information and if you are interested in adding to your collection.
Namaste, Lisa

Lisa Rasmussen

Lisa Rasmussen is a painter, art advocate, environmental artist, and educator. She was born in Wisconsin and has her roots in Scandinavia and Ireland.  Lisa comes from a working class family, who has always supported her to follow her dreams to become an Artist.  Her late Mother, Mickey was Lisa’s Muse, she fostered  in her the practice of Art as being a form of expression and personal healing. Early on Lisa developed a thirst for travel and distant cultures. A key conceptual element of her artistic process is the study and travel to ancient cultures and sacred sites around the world. Some of her travel adventures include Nepal, Peru, Ireland, and Brazil. She has also lived and taught English in the mountains of South, China, as well as she had studied antiquities, the Art of the Renaissance, and Ceramics in Florence, Italy. For her painting is a very visceral, physical, and metaphysical process. Rasmussen’s paintings have been called abstract expressionism, with a spiritual twist. Her paintings reflect her holistic worldview and her deep connection with the natural world. For Rasmussen, art making is a transcendental experience.  When she paints, Rasmussen taps into a force greater than herself; a force that creates through her. Each painting is a product of her dance with divinity. Through her process she hopes to invoke in herself and the viewer a deeper connection to the world within and around us through reflection and inspiration. Rasmussen was named “Graduate Student of the Year” during her MFA commencement exercises in recognition of the strength of her paintings and her use of her artistic gifts to transform the lives of victims of abuse. Rasmussen is the Co-founder and Co-director of the ArtCart and of Art Break Day 2011, the mission of both these projects is to empower individuals and communities through ART and its process. Rasmussen’s work has been featured in numerous media outlets. Currently she lives in Santa Monica with her three cats

Featured Collection (Total Items: 9)                                Price: Low to HighPrice: High to LowNameNewestAvg ReviewReview CountFree ShippingOn Sale                                                       Lucidity  0 Review(s) Online Gallery Price:  $1,300.00 Prana  0 Review(s) Online Gallery Price:  $1,500.00 Wu Wei  0 Review(s) Online Gallery Price:  $1,300.00 Phoenix Rising  0 Review(s) Online Gallery Price:  $1,500.00 Illumination  0 Review(s) Online Gallery Price:  $1,900.00 Pneuma  0 Review(s) Online Gallery Price:  $1,900.00 Raramuri  0 Review(s) Online Gallery Price:  $1,900.00 Caol Ait  0 Review(s) Online Gallery Price:  $4,000.00 Maya  0 Review(s) Online Gallery Price:  $2,000.00

Metamorphosis of Painting-B

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

Absolutely!!

Transform your Collection Today!!

Metamorphosis is for sale

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

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

Price $4000

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!!

Terra Firma: My New Gallery

Last week I signed a new contract with the San Francisco Bay Area Gallery, Terra Firma. They have three locations in Northern California (Sonoma, the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, and San Rafael).

Currently, my paintings are showing in San Rafael, Terra Firma location. I am really jazzed about this opportunity!!! My works have perfect companions, the amazing and very meaningful, Shona Sculptures and the phenomenal Ethiopian painter, Wosene Kosrof.

I have a feeling my work will be flying out of there into collectors homes!

This amazing gallery just opened in the last month and has a great vibe. The seemly small space is expansive with a loft and it has floor to ceiling windows, which emits some extraordinary light!!

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

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

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.

Latest Painting Finished and Ready to Find a Good Home

Phoenix Rising
Acrylic on Canvas
24" x36"
$1500.00

I really like this piece. I might have to keep it for myself :)

The Art of Destruction

Life as an intuitive painter is always about creation and destruction. Sometimes you can go to far, but in the process it always seems to come back. It is really all about letting go. After many acts of creation, destruction, and recreation in my cyclic painting process-at some point and after some great reflection-I can look at the little vibrant creation and say your are done. It is time for you to go our into the world. Or if I love it so much it will stay in my collection.

Below is great example of the process. One thing to remember is I never have an outcome in my mind. I never plan out a piece or follow a formula. But, through a lot staring or gazing and great reflection, I tend to learn a lot from my paintings. It triggers something internal and metaphysical for me.

Here is the first layer of this painting..... it just did not feel right.
1.


Second and third layer, I started playing with pigment sticks. Kind of cool...
2.


Today, I decided that I did like the marks. I used molding paste. Some green and black colors.
3.


I think this is its third incarnation of this canvas and it is still not done transforming! It will dry and tomorrow I will stare it and then as always it will tell me what do. Some of works are layered with twenty individual paintings.

Paintings for Sale

Lisa poured out The Thin Places for all to see. And in her hand the bending spree, in wistful, flowing, calming traumic interface, the witness be. Thinness of distinction. Thinness of discrepancy. The space between, the space unseen, the space where the twilight and the knowing sheen, find in each other the harmonic mean.

Spices emanating upward from the nestled mandala-savory-space, lubricating the nostrils with memories chased from deeper places sight unseen. Light and scent (!), we enter the scene, diving in towards the hidden seam. Paintings cast in measured care, with wildness constrained by just the bare mounts in the frames ringing evenly the room, holding in each a lingering tune, of the place where spirit and thisness meet.

A lozenge for the eyes and mind. Symmetries nestled in fun-filled calling mysteries bind. Pneuma. Anasazi. Darknesses, incomplete, faint, whistling memories that you barely taste again. The deeper reaches of the mind, trickling away in kind. Lingering whispers haunting so, bartered through the colors claimed in Ka and Bardo, the journey from each piece to another bringing with it a glancing blow. A living, feeling, beautiful, explosion inward away from the evening glow.

Linearity in Lil, shocking still, organized and regal. Containment stressed on that thinness undressed thoroughly saturating the acrylic finesse of boundary and order on yet another sinking beckoning regress. Moving me back and out and around, to touch and caress, the space, the place, my girl’s soft press. The art, for me, is a seeping, see, from hand and thought outward, and in to me. The expressions from you are a simple plea, for a return, a dance, some part of me.

Art that inspires, art that plants a seed, art that pushes and bleeds.
-Cameron Thrash

Transformation

24" x 36"

$1300

KA (SOLD)

Thin Places

36" x 36"

2 1/2" Deep Canvas

$2000

“A thin place,” “is a place where the boundary between heaven and earth is especially thin. It’s a place where we can sense the divine more readily."

Prana

24" x 36"

2 1/2 Deep Canvas

$1500

Prana means

Energy, Breath, Life force

Wabi Sabi (SOLD)

Wu Wei

24" x 36'

$1300

A key principle in realizing our oneness with the Tao is that of wu-wei, or "non-doing." Wu-wei refers to behavior that arises from a sense of oneself as connected to others and to one's environment. It is not motivated by a sense of separateness. It is action that is spontaneous and effortless. At the same time it is not to be considered inertia, laziness, or mere passivity. Rather, it is the experience of going with the grain or swimming with the current. Our contemporary expression, "going with the flow," is a direct expression of this fundamental Taoist principle, which in its most basic form refers to behavior occurring in response to the flow of the Tao

Griffen

24' x 36"

$1500

I exhibited this one at the LA art walk. I had several comments saying that it was the best piece that they had seen the whole evening

E-mail me at lisarasmussen08@gmail. com for inquiries.

Super! I sold another piece

Wabi Sabi II has just sold. My art is in the perfect place at Room Art Gallery in San Raphael, CA.



Thanks Danielle.