Jul
11
Lisa Adams Featured in the Premier Issue of Installation Magazine.
CB1 Gallery artist Lisa Adams is preparing for her December exhibition at the gallery. And, you can read more about her work, both past and current in the premier issue of Installation Magazine.
A MORASS OF CONTRADICTIONS 2010, 48 X 40 INCHES, OIL AND SPRAY PAINT ON PANEL
The viewer’s gaze unhinges the schism between a utopic past and a dystopic present, whose wrath is concealed by an arsenal of exacting moves executed invisibly by the hand of artist Lisa Adams. By implementing a set of painterly techniques of her own creation, which includes the meticulous use of sponge rollers to create mosaic patches, abstract and intricately layered backgrounds and tentative lines achieved by dipping paint along the edge of an illustration board, Adams achieves a visual tug and pull that requires acute attention. Her works operate on a cinematic level as the canvases are imbued with an optical luminosity akin to the rack focus applied in cinema. For a single moment the background and foreground converge to form a cohesive narrative, but only for a fleeting moment, and then the viewer must reconstruct the narrative after the vision fades. The works of Lisa Adams are breathing entities that reconcile the remnants of a world walking the balance between decay and possibility.
Read the entire article here.