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Artist Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions:
2002 Pictures Perfect
Gallery, Seattle
2002 Pratt Fine Art Center,
Seattle
2001 Willow's Gallery,
Seattle
2001 Pictures Perfect
Gallery, Seattle
Group Shows and Exhibitions:
2002 Sausalito Art Festival,
Sausalito, CA
2002 Bellevue Art Museum
Fair, Bellevue, WA
2002 Pratt Fine Art Center,
Seattle, WA
2001 Pratt Fine ...
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Artist Galleries:
Seattle Art Museum
Rental/Sales Gallery, Seattle,
WA
Pictures Perfect, Seattle, WA
The State of the Arts Gallery,
Olympia, WA
White Bird Gallery, Cannon
Beach, OR
Tidewater Gallery, Swansboro,
NC
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
Riversoft Corporation, San
Francisco, CA
Alexis Hotel, Seattle, WA
Microcrafts, Redmond, WA
Best Western, San Francisco,
CA
Zax Restaurant at the Golden
Nugget, Las Vegas, NV
Evergreen Medical Center,
Kirkland, WA...
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Commissions:
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Artist Statement for Lisa Kesler
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Lisa Kesler is a successful painter, printmaker and mixed-media artist living in Seattle, Washington. Her art integrates printmaking, collage and painting and draws on her interest in geometric forms and contrast. Kesler continually experiments with techniques and materials, and it is this act of experimentation that inspires her as an artist.
The rural landscape in central Illinois where she grew up is reflected in much of her work. Her first oil paintings as a high school student were realistic "snapshots" of rural architecture that earned her several awards in the Scholastic Art Competition. After earning a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Illinois in 1982, she began combining abstract, flat compositions with realistic images in a comment on the flatness of the fields around her. Influenced by Cubism and the art of the 1940's, Kesler gravitated toward greater abstraction.
Kesler's recent work pays tribute both to the Cubists and the patterns she finds in rural imagery. She is intrigued by the possibilities of repetition and attributes her attraction to the patchwork in the quilts and farmland of her childhood. In her mixed-media works on paper, she stylizes forms into simpler geometric shapes and juxtaposes bold colors in fanciful compositions. Contrasts between light and dark are central to her art. Kesler's work can be found in private and corporate collections through-out the country.
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