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For The Time Being: new images, thoughts, observations and a bit of this and that
Friday, March 17, 2017
Exhibitions
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Invitation to Join
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Lisa
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Sunday, May 1, 2016
Time Changes, Life Changes, Work Changes
A Delicate Balance 30 x 30 encaustic |
My response: 'Time Changes, Life Changes, Work changes"
It is true that my work takes twists and turns. There are shelves of paintings with which I am exploring: structure, color, metaphoric shapes, inside /outside worlds, light, mark-making, scale plus plus.
Using a variety of mediums inherently changes the outcome of my work also.
Floating 24 x 24 oil on panel 2016 |
Recent teaching has provided me with the opportunity to travel which effects the work in surprising ways. It is a matter of being visually open.
Taos Series 1 11 x 8 oil on paper 2016 |
Taos Series 2 11 x 8 oil on paper 2016 |
Taos Series 3 11 x 8 oil on paper 2016 |
Taos Series 4, 5" x 5" oil on panel 2016 |
Sometimes I wish I could be one of those artists that does the same consistant work over time. A shape shift here, a corner there, a slight color change and yet the constant of their work is ever-present. I admire that tenacity and vision. That structure would seem to relieve the anxiety of the "not knowing" that I sometime experience in the studio.
It is a momentary wish ! (I think these two pieces show that flip and flop!)
Stacked 30 x 30 oil on panel 2016 |
Moving Sideways 40 x40 oil on panel 2016 |
This is a time when I am happy to have had many years of "making" behind me to remind me that I need to continue on my own journey and "all will be well".
Small Gem Series 5" x 5" encaustic on panel |
Small Gem Series 5" x 5" encaustic on panel |
Small Gem Series 8" x 8" encaustic on panel
Monday, November 16, 2015
Lisa Pressman: 'Passing Through' at Causey Contemporary by John Seed
John Seed Interviews Lisa Pressman
Lisa, tell me about the theme of your show: "Passing Through."
"Passing Through" reflects both my own travels and the passing away of my mother in September of 2014, just before her 100th birthday. The last few days of her life she had visions of trains, boats and other symbols that referred to traveling. Ironically, In my own travels, I have been using the camera as a sketchbook and many of the photos are related to trains, boats, windows and reflections. So "Passing Through" is about both physical journeys as well as a metaphysical passage.
Can you say a bit about how your mother Adele was important to your development as an artist?
Both my parents played an important role in my development. My father owned a lumberyard when I was growing up so I have many memories of walking through the aisles of stuff: screws, nails, washers, etc. Watching the house paint being mixed and looking at all the colors of the paint chips was a thrill. The smell of wood and sawdust is very familiar. As for my mother, she was an actress, an artist and an antique dealer who fostered my interest in art by taking me to museums, supporting my decision to study art and always believing in me.
How does the world around you make its way into your abstract imagery?
One of my strongest memories as a child was when I would lay in bed and try to fall asleep. I would stare at the wall and create a grid and imagine images in each square of moving light and color. Abstraction speaks to me. These days I am always looking at patterns, textures, colors, shapes and lines in an abstracted way. Using the camera as a viewfinder has sharpened my vision as a painter. I don't look at or use the photos in the studio but just the act of stopping, noticing and capturing the image filters it way into my work.
Do you work on a single series at a time or do you juggle themes and ideas?
I am always juggling themes, ideas and materials. I work on many pieces at a time and they are all in different stages of completion. After the Passing Through work leaves the studio, I will be continuing to work on a series of paintings that deal with structure, geometry and space. Some of the consistent themes in my work are transformation and decay, building history, interior and exterior spaces, windows and vessels, mapping and both the close up and the far away. I find that the imagery in my work appears and reappears over years.
Who are some living artists that you admire?
Today's picks would be: Mark Bradford, Jay Kelly, Brenda Goodman, Louise Fishman, Amy Silman, William Kendridge, El Anatsui, Sqeak Carnwath Thomas Nozkowski, Jonathan Lasker, Brice Marden and Andy Goldsworthy. I have a feeling Frank Stella will be in on the list after I see the show at the Whitney.
Is there anything else you would like to say about your current show?
I am looking forward to seeing all this work outside of my studio. The surfaces of the paintings are rich with texture and subtle shifts of color, so to see them up on the wall, properly lit, will be revealing.
Lisa Pressman "Passing Through"
Causey Contemporary
29 Orchard Street, NYC
Opening is Friday, November 13th, 6-8
The show runs through 12/13/2015
View the exhibition catalog onlinehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seed/lisa-pressman-passing-thr_b_8506526.html
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Monday, October 12, 2015
Save the Date: Friday the 13th of November: Passing Through at Causey Contemporary
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
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.”
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.
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.
The Journey 36 x 76 oil on panel |
“Contrasting Abstractions” opens October 8th, 6:00-8:00pm, Gallery 14 Maple, Morristown, NJ.
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.”
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
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