"Kansas Plein air"
2002-07-18 until 2002-08-31
photo san francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, USA United States of America

Lisa Grossmans paintings achieve a rare balance between abstraction and figuration, technique and process, beauty and concept. Her paintings are of the broad Kansas Prairie, painted outside and generally in a single sitting. Grossman utilizes a broad palette, using the rich hues of the evening, blues greens and oranges, and the acid colors, (almost Bonnard like) of a hot clear day.

Although these paintings are clearly representational, Grossman‚s brushstrokes stand out, capturing the method and consciousness of the artist at work. She will often spend an entire day or two in the hills observing her reactions to the environment before she begins to paint. In one sense her paintings are beautiful, sometimes solemn, meditations on the quickly vanishing open prairie. And in another way, she captures her own artistic spirit by her use of color and texture within the picture plane.

Lisa Grossman lives and works in Kansas. She was the recipient of The Kansas Arts Commission Fellowship, The Virginia Mastio Memorial Purchase Award at The National Small Oil Painting Exhibition at The Wichita Center for The Arts, and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh Faculty Memorial Scholarship.

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