Sunday, November 15, 2015
Monday, October 12, 2015
Save the Date: Friday the 13th of November: Passing Through at Causey Contemporary
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| Passing Through ,12 x 12 oil 2015 |
For Immediate Release
Media Contact:
Tracy Causey-Jeffery
212.966.2520
Passing Through, Exhibition Focuses on Metaphorical Passage Between Human
Vibrancy and Entropy; Opens November 13th at Causey Contemporary
First Solo exhibition by Lisa Pressman at Gallery in Manhattan, NY, September 2015
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| Close to the Heart , 12 x 12, oil 2015 |
Lisa Pressman believes her paintings
embody a visual synthesis of stored memory - a metaphorical representation of
the passage between human vibrancy and entropy. Causey Contemporary located at
29 Orchard St. in Manhattan’s lower east side will present a
exhibition entitled Passing Through
featuring Ms. Pressman’s oil and encaustic paintings to the
public from November 12 - December 13, 2015. The exhibition will mark Lisa’s
first solo exhibition with the gallery.
The public is invited to join Ms. Pressman and gallery director, Tracy
Causey-Jeffery at an opening reception on Friday, Nov. 13th from 6 - 8 p.m. -
an appropriate choice of date for an exhibition that in Ms. Pressman’s
words “
sees to realize a direction connection between travel,
observing the transience of images and time and the passing of my 99 year old
mom. The last week of her life she
kept saying there is the train, there is the bus,….a
riverboat. The imagery abstracted, modes of transport frozen in time and space.”
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| Passing Through 1 12 x 12 oil, 2015 |
Lisa
is a core instructor for R&F Handmade Paints in Kingston, NY and a workshop
instructor for Gamblin Artists Colors. She is an annual presenter and
instructor at the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, MA and
teaches workshops in both
encaustic and oil and cold wax mediums throughout the U.S.
Lisa currently lives and works in
West Orange, New Jersey.
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| The Red Tableau, 38 x 48 oil 2015 |
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
“Contrasting Abstractions” opens October 8th, 6:00-8:00 pm, Gallery14 Maple, Morristown,NJ.
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| The Journey 36 x 76 oil on panel |
“Contrasting Abstractions” opens October 8th, 6:00-8:00pm, Gallery 14 Maple, Morristown, NJ.
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| Unspoken, 24 x 24 oil on panel |
CONTRASTING ABSTRACTIONS. The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, with curator, Virginia Fabbri Butera, PhD, selected works by the following outstanding New Jersey artists, Christine Barney and Nancy Cohen (Jersey City), Susan Lisbin (Orange), Lisa Pressman (West Orange), Christine Tenaglia (Wildwood Crest), Ken Weathersby (Montclair) and Gail Winbury (Westfield).
The exhibit explores the artists’ varied approaches to abstraction – through the use of different media (glass, wood, fabric, paint, resin, handmade paper, wire, etc.), composition, color and vision. Christine Barney’s sculptural glass works highlight color and explore new geometric forms, while Susan Lisbin’s organic, almost anthropomorphic sculptures evoke whimsy and a sense of the fantastic. In Nancy Cohen’s hands, glass art assumes unexpected and fascinating organic forms – in combination with other media such as metal, glass, wire, handmade paper, and resin. Christine Tenaglia’s wood pieces have a sense of presence and monumentality far beyond their modest proportions while Ken Weathersby’s geometric approach to abstraction utilizes precise patterning and reveals underlying physical structures to engage his viewers. Gail Winbury’s lyrical abstract paintings showcase her distinctive use of color and design while Lisa Pressman’s works focus on line and hint at hidden codes through incorporation of alphabetic and numeric marks.
Curator Virginia Fabbri Butera, PhD, adds, “Since the mid-19th century, visual artists have been experimenting with the creation of non-figurative imagery in 2-D and 3-D objects. In this exhibition we have a wonderful opportunity to contemplate works by seven mid-career New Jersey artists who are focusing on important metaphors about contemporary abstraction. By manipulating varied substances, colors, and structures in nonrepresentational arrangements, the artists suggest energy, emotion, meaning and psychological inferences and interactions that underlie both 21st century art and life.”
The public is invited to view this exciting exhibit and to meet the artists at the free opening reception on October 8, 2015 from 6-8pm at Gallery at 14 Maple, a distinctive space located on the 3rd floor of the LEED certified “green” building at 14 Maple Avenue in Morristown, NJ. Refreshments will be served.”
Curator Virginia Fabbri Butera, PhD, adds, “Since the mid-19th century, visual artists have been experimenting with the creation of non-figurative imagery in 2-D and 3-D objects. In this exhibition we have a wonderful opportunity to contemplate works by seven mid-career New Jersey artists who are focusing on important metaphors about contemporary abstraction. By manipulating varied substances, colors, and structures in nonrepresentational arrangements, the artists suggest energy, emotion, meaning and psychological inferences and interactions that underlie both 21st century art and life.”
The public is invited to view this exciting exhibit and to meet the artists at the free opening reception on October 8, 2015 from 6-8pm at Gallery at 14 Maple, a distinctive space located on the 3rd floor of the LEED certified “green” building at 14 Maple Avenue in Morristown, NJ. Refreshments will be served.”
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| I Know That 1 and 2 24 x 48 encaustic |
- See more at: http://www.lisapressman.net/2015/09/10/contrasting-abstractions-october-8-2015-from-6-8pm-at-gallery-at-14-maple-street-morristown-nj/#sthash.Zme3A3Gb.dpuf
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Sunday, May 31, 2015
The Incisive Line
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| Decipher 15 10 x10 encaustic, L Pressman |
The Incisive Line, Curated by Debra Claffey including : Debra Claffey, Elizabeth Harris, Lisa Pressman and Amy Weil; in conjunction with The Ninth International Encaustic Conference Curatorial Program
Opening: Thursday June 4, 2015 Hosted by Gallery 10, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, Massachusetts, June 2015.
Catalog for the exhibition :Claffey-IncisiveLine-catalog-1
“Pressman brings us to paint-laden abstraction. Graphic swaths of chromatic paint form the topmost layer of paintings that ask us to look deep into their surface, where scribed lines and scraped passages form a structural matrix. The broad strokes recall Franz Kline, while the overall markings and dense under lay- ers reference the paintings of Lee Krasner, but the result is uniquely the artist’s own.”
Written by Joanne Mattera, artist, writer, curator and director of the International Encaustic Conference . The Incisive Line. Published in conjunction with The Ninth International Encaustic Conference Curatorial Program.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Inside/Outside at R&F Handmade Paints, Review and Video
"Pressman’s dexterity in suggesting sensory experiences through the pure language of paint is not only evident in her inventive applications but also in her talents as a colorist"
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
Inside/Outside, Solo Show
February 2-April 18, 2015
The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
Kingston, NY 12401 Opening Reception: March 7, 2015, 5:00-7:00
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