Lisa Englander

medium: painting
wisconsin academy gallery artist
portal wisconsin featured artist

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Vessel Series 9 2020 Painting	Vessel Series 11 2020 Painting	Vessel Series 13 2023 Painting
Bete Blanc 2023 Painting	Amur 2023 Painting	Lemuria 2020 Painting
Grammar of Ornament A 2023 Painting	Grammar of Ornament C 2023 Painting	Grammar of Ornament H 2023 Painting

Contact information
Artist resides in: Racine, WI
Email Address: LEnglander.Art@gmail.com
Web site: www.lisaenglander.com

Artist statement
As a painter, I am concerned with creating a contrast of opposing elements in my work. Soft floral forms are juxtaposed with hard-edged abstract areas and large spaces with minutely-scaled pattern. The paintings and drawings are decorative in their use of ornament as the suggestion of illusionary space within an abstract composition is brought about by the continued overlapping of patterned areas and the overlaying of portions of one form over another.

Vessel shapes or women’s hand fans with their hard edges and wide areas of color are set up against passages of abstract floral groupings and planes of detailed patterns. These paintings are visually organized in an almost musical fashion. Sections of washed and brushed color meet, connect, and stop abruptly, before changing to an entirely different portion of the work like riffs in a jazz composition. The separate painted areas of each of my compositions enunciate and restate themes. The abstract paintings have always hinted at a reality that never existed as intersecting planes of pattern shade and shadow each other to suggest traditional realistic space and depth.

The composition and color arrangements are laid out in advance. The designs are hand-drawn and hand-painted in watercolor without the aid of an airbrush or any mechanical methods. No masking or taping of any kind is used—these are created freehand. My formal graduate training level training was in Printmaking and my works in watercolor painting tends to suggest the precise quality of a “printerly” painting.

Biography
Lisa Englander

Education
MFA   Printmaking and Museum Methods with Honors, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2001   Lisa Englander: Studies in Color, Gallery 110 North, Plymouth, Wisconsin
1990   Lisa Englander: A Decade of Painting, 1980-1990, Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc,
1989   Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Madison, Wisconsin
   
Two Person, Selected Juried and Invitational* Group Exhibitions   *denotes award or purchase, ** traveled
2022   Watercolor Wisconsin, Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin
2022   Watercolor Now 2022, Bromer Prize*
2021   Center for Visual Arts, Wausau, Wisconsin
2020    Missouri Watercolor Society International, Barcelona Academy of Art or the European Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain

Selected Public Collections
Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, Wisconsin
City of Milwaukee Collection
The Fabric Workshop/Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Miller Art Library, Sturgeon Bay
Milwaukee Arts Commission, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin