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.

Support Our Newest Project - Take 5: Art Break Day!

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Support Our Newest Project - Take 5: Art Break Day!

"The time has come to give everyone in our community an opportunity to know and experience creativity as our most powerful human capacity."
~William Cleveland

Take 5: ARTbreak Day 2011

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Visualize walking into the center of a city and seeing a group of random strangers sitting around a table chatting, laughing, sharing, and getting to know one another through the act of making art together.

On Take 5: Art Break Day folks will literally be taking an art break; taking a breather from the ordinary course of their day to MAKE ART FOR FREE!

The first official Take 5: ARTbreak Day will be on September 2nd, 2011. This community ARTreach event will take course during the work day, in the cities of San Francisco, San Rafael, Richmond, Berkeley, and Oakland. In the “heart” of each city a canopy with the words “Take an Art Break” will house tables, filled to the brim with an array of art supplies! Passersby will be greeted and invited to have a seat and to take an art break.

Over the next four months we need to raise $50,000.

That is $12,500 per month.

and $417.00 per day.

That is equal to 117 Venti lattes at Starbucks per day or one iPhone per day.

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1. Donate, donate, donate Click HERE to donate now! Your tax-deductible donation provides crucial support for this projec. Every single donation no matter how small or large is indispensable and intrinsic in helping us create a successful Take Five: Take an ARTbreak Day!


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4. Become part of our ARTmentor Team. We are looking for 8 ARTmentors to help us prior, during, and after the event with several different tasks. Check out the website for more info.


5. Volunteer. We have over thirty volunteer positions available.


6. Have fun with us in September! Put September 2, 2011 on your calendar NOW so you don't forget to come out and TAKE AN ART BREAK for free!

We hope you will join us in making

Take 5: Art Break Day a stellar success!!

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.
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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.

Latest works that have SOLD!

I am very happy to say I just sold two more works at the the Room Art Gallery in San Raphael, CA.


Wabi-sabi "if an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi.[Wabi-sabi] nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect."


Shen
This dictionary entry for shen lists early usage examples, and many of these 11 meanings were well attested prior to the Han Dynasty. Chinese classic texts use shen in meanings 1 "spirit; god", 2 "spirit, mind; attention", 3 "expression; state of mind", 5 "supernatural", and meaning 6 "esteem

A big thank you to Danielle for making this happen.