Lisa McCutcheon

Lisa McCutcheon
San Anselmo, California, USA

STATEMENT

I draw from a deep and often microscopic, hyper-focused observation in the hidden corners of the natural environment surrounding my home. I process this experience through drawing, painting, and photography to create a fluid space where these elements interact. I am interested in creating both harmony and tension among the differing elements that come together in my work. This includes an ongoing balancing act between the digital representation of my photographic images, the precision of drawing, and the fluidity of painting. The notion of harmony and tension further play out within the imagery where dead vegetation may sit side by side that which is flourishing or feathers tangle within rock-like formations. Yet, with each piece I need to go through a process of deconstructing this imagery to a point it is almost indiscernible, yet holding on to a degree of that which is knowable- forever balancing recognition with the more ambiguous.

BIO

Lisa McCutcheon is a collage artist and painter living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001. She has been in numerous group shows in the Bay Area and other parts of the country and had a solo show at Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco in February 2022. She was included in several group shows: “Here and Now”, “Stay Inspired:Shelter in Place” and “Lightening Strikes II” also with Dolby Chadwick Gallery. Two of these shows included publications pairing artwork with well established poets. She was included in an invitational large scale collage show in Palo Alto California and curated “Weave, Bundle, Cut and Layer” with twenty-one artists at Root Division in San Francisco in November 2021.

ARTIST CONTACT

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