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Lisa Bartleson

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1968, Born in Seattle, WA

Education

1991 BA Biology, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO

Artist Statement

Bartleson’s canvases are said to be “records of the meditative act of painting, meditations for the viewer to contemplate and engage.”

For the Artist, creating art is a means to express emotion – to gather the chaos in the world and channel it into a tranquil work that challenges (commands) the viewer to be patient and attentive. The work is intended to influence the viewer’s frame of mind – the soothing aspect of the work then becomes contagious. She uses a reductive vocabulary of form and color to create work that infused with light. The nuanced surfaces of her paintings are at once intense and calming, moving and still. The paintings offer the viewer a space to shed the soot of their surrounding and experience a realm of purity.

Exhibitions

2011 How The Light Gets In, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, SF, CA, (Apr – May)
2011 What’s New Pussy Cat? Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (Jan)
2010 South Bay Focus, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, (Nov)
2010 Color, Projects, Pomona, CA, (Aug)
2010 San Francisco Fine Art Fair, Projects, (May 2010)
2010 Red Dot NY, Andi Campognone Projects, (Mar)
2009 Gallery 825, curated by Apsara DiQuinzio SFMOMA, LA, CA, (Dec)
2009 Gallery 825, Works on Paper, Los Angeles, CA, (Nov)
2009 Raw Interiors’s Hertogenbosch, Holland (solo), (Oct)
2009 Angles Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA (solo), (July)
2009 Art and Architecture, Venice Art Walk, special exhibition, Venice, CA, (May)
2009 Cerrulean Gallery, Uncommon Composites, Dallas, TX, (solo) (Feb)
2009 L.A. Art Show, Los Angeles, CA, (Jan)
2008 Red Dot Art Fair, London
2008 Fine Art and Artists, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. (solo)
2008 William Turner Gallery, Liquid Supercool, Bergamot Station, CA
2008 EIS Studio, Venice Art Walk, special exhibition, Venice, CA
2008 George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2007 Art Now, Miami, FL
2007 West Coast Green, mkLotus house exhibition, San Francisco, CA
2007 Dwell On Design, San Francisco, CA
2007 George Billis Gallery, Culver City Artwalk, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Red Dot Show, New York, NY
2007 L.A. Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2007 EIS Studio, “Art and Sculpture”, Venice CA
2006 EIS Studio, “4 Artists”, Venice CA
2006 Ovolo Contemporary Art, “Openings”, Venice, CA
2005 Fresh Paint, “Connected”, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Built, Soho, NY
2003 Built, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Ron Judish Fine Arts, Denver, CO
2002 MYNT, Denver, CO

Collections

Princess Rima Jeda
AT&T, Los Angeles, CA
The Cosmopolitain, Las Vegas, NV
Hyatt, San Francisco, CA
Giada De Laurentiis
City Center, Las Vegas, NV
Four Seasons Hotel, Houston, TX
UCLA Medical Center
Health Net
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Park Hyatt, Beijing, China
Hyatt Regency, Shanghai, China
Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
Oceana Hotel, Santa Monica, CA
Palomar Hotel, Alexandria, VA
Treasure Island, Las Vegas, NV
Harrah’s, Lake Tahoe, NV
Hard Rock Hotel, Tampa, FL
Michelle Kaufman, Oakland, CA
Private Collection’s throughout the US and Europe

Media/Reviews

2008 The Magazine LA, Review of Liquid Supercool at William Turner, (Nov)
2008 Architectural Digest, (Dec)
2007 Sunset Magazine, (Dec)