Folded Space #2
2 2 .5" X 18.5" Oil stick on Japanese paper
Folded Space #3
22.5" X 18.5" Oil stick on Japanese paper
Folded Space #4
22.5" X 18.5" Oil stick on Japanese paper
Folded Space #6
22.5" X 18.5" Oil stick on Japanese paper
Folded Space #16
22.5" X 18.5" Oil stick on Japanese paper
Folded Primaries, Red
22.5" X 18.5" Oil stick on Japanese paper
Folded Primaries, Blue
22.5" X 18.5" Oil stick on Japanese paper
Folded Primaries, Yellow
22.5" X 18.5" Oil stick on Japanese paper
Chromatic Play, Yellow
18" x 14 3/4" Oil stick on Japanese paper
Chromatic Play, Pink, Yellow, Orange
18" x 14 3/4" Oil stick on Japanese paper
Chromatic Play, Blue & Yellow
18" x 14 3/4" Oil stick on Japanese paper
Chromatic Play, Blue & Iridescent
18" x 14 3/4" Oil stick on Japanese paper
Chromatic Play, Five Blues
18" x 14 3/4" Oil stick on Japanese paper
Artist Biography
Lisa Hamilton received her MFA from Hunter College and her BFA from The Cooper Union. She has exhibited throughout the United States and Japan. She received a NYFA aritist grant for painting and has participated in residencies such as MacDowell, Yaddo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. Lisa taught Color and Color Theory at several universities in New York including SUNY Purchase College. After many years in New York CIty, she now lives and works in Norfolk, CT.
Artist Statement
I am interested in how painting can reveal something about the nature of perception and its relationship to space and meaning. The tools of our visual understanding- how we make sense of the physical world through light, color, shape, line, texture and perspective- can be purposed to propose an experience that expands beyond the visible landscape into a space of perception previously unseen. Painting is a rare venue open to inquiry; visual play and flexible thinking reveal something about how we understand and about how meaning is constructed. I believe that painting is well positioned to engage ambitions of both viewer and artist that are beyond words.
In my work I seek to understand how the experience of looking can be suspended over time and how an image can develop with duration. When this happens, a painting begins to defy the static nature commonly attributes to objects and reveal itself to occupy an animated state of evolution. Our experience of light and color is dynamic, therefore it could be said that a work is only fully complete when seen by the viewer. One of the goals of my work is to engage the process of seeing.
