Lisa Adams

The Future of Paradise Past

 January 10 – February 14, 2009

Artist Dialogue : Wednesday, February 4, 7 – 9 pm

Listen to Molly Barnes Interview with Lisa Adams here

The Future of Paradise Past, 2008, 32" x 72", oil on panel

Lawrence Asher Gallery is proud to present a dozen recent oil paintings by Lisa Adams. Entitled, The Future Of Paradise Past, the exhibition continues Adams’ examination of a less than Edenic netherworld, containing birds, botanical elements and enigmatic structures, offering the viewer an opportunity for Koan-like contemplation.

 

As James Scarborough writes in the catalogue essay that will accompany the show,

 

“Her work’s not so much a process of entropy as imperfection, things don’t become cocked-up, things are cocked-up right from the start. It’s a message that broaches a spirituality of imperfection. Once it does so, it’s up to the viewer to make peace, find eddies of beauty and serenity, where they can find it, on the canvas and, especially, beyond.”

 

Please join us for a special Artist Dialogue with Lisa Adams and Shana Dys Dambrot, Wednesday, February 4, 2009 , 7 – 9 pm .

Lawrence Asher Gallery is located at 5820 Wilshire Boulevard , Los Angeles , across the street from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and adjacent to the Craft and Folk Art Museum . Free parking is available on Wilshire Blvd. and behind 5858 Wilshire Boulevard . Enter on Stanley Ave. For more information, please call 323.935.9100

 

The Artist

Lisa Adams is a painter and public artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Ms. Adams graduated with a B.A. in Painting from Scripps College and received her M.F.A. from the Claremont Graduate University.  She is the recipient of a Fulbright Professional Scholar Award, a Brody Arts Fund Fellowship and a Durfee ARC Grant. Her work is in the collections of Eli Broad, The Frederick Weis­man Museum and the Laguna Museum of Art.  Ms. Adams has been an artist-in-residence in Slovenia, Finland, Japan, Holland and Costa Rica. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She was also commission by BMW of North America to paint an ArtCar, has been included in “A Day in the Life of the American Woman, “ Bullfinch Press, 2005, and is currently working on a public art commission for the new Fire Station No. 64 in Watts.

 

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