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Eclips(E)llipse, Shadow writer(s) v. 9 | Acrylic, ink and interference paint on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm, 2023
HELM CONTEMPORARY is pleased to announce IN QUIET MOTION, a group exhibition featuring artists Kerri Ammirata, Lisa Blas, and Elise Thompson.
In Quiet Motion: April 12 - May 11, 2024
Collectively, these artworks vividly express the perpetual flow and motion of nature, capturing its transformative essence through the interplay of ambient light, reflections, and color. Infused with feminine energy, each composition celebrates the ethereal beauty found in atmospheric environments, drawing inspiration from elements such as earth, water, and space. The fluid gestures, intricate layers, and physicality of their surfaces create an immersive experience akin to a swell that recedes, gradually revealing the layers beneath—a stirring of curiosity that encourages viewers to explore both the visible and concealed moments within ephemeral atmospheres.
Lisa Blas | Routes to Oceania: banyan bark | Acrylic and interference paint on panel, 12 x 12 inches, 2021, Private Collection
Lisa Blas | Amber waves of grain, Shadow writer(s), v. 8 | Watercolor, gouache, metallic ink, dye-based ink, acrylic ink, acrylic and interference paint on canvas, 2023
LISA BLAS, Routes to Oceania: ta lave, ma mer (Your Lava, My Sea), Acrylic and interference paint on canvas, 55.5 x 66.25 inches, 2022
EFA Studios
323 West 39th St., New York, NY
January 24 – February 23, 2024
Opening Reception, January 24, 6 – 8 p.m.
Hours: Tue – Fri 12 – 5 pm
Lisa Blas
Sari Carel
Clare Churchouse
Billy Gerard Frank
Beth Ganz
Amir Hariri
Tooraj Khamenehzadeh
Lise Kjaer
Joyce Yu-Jean Lee
Negin Mahzoun
Curated by Sharon Kendrick
A screening of Billy Gerard Frank's film “Second Eulogy: Mind the Gap” will be held on February 22, 2024, from 6–8 pm. A closing reception will follow.
EFA Studios is pleased to present an exhibition of EFA-affiliated artists whose work reminds us that the act of perceiving can lead to the realization that there is a hidden depth or abundance of things yet to be seen or understood. The artists here perceive and share things that may be hidden in plain sight, suppressed, or living deep in their imagination.
I am pleased to show recent work along with my colleagues at The New York Academy of Art! Please join us for the opening tonight, all welcome.
Opening Reception: February 1, 2023 | 6-8pm
On view: February 1 – March 5, 2023
Open Daily, 10am–6pm
Closed February 20, 2023
New York Academy of Art
111 Franklin Street
New York, NY 10013
212-966-0300
For inquiries please contact:
exhibitions@nyaa.edu
Lisa Blas, Routes to Oceania, after Marthe W., Acrylic and interference paint on canvas, 57 x 45.5 inches, 2020-21
Lisa Blas | Studio view| July 2022 | West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Ireland
Saturday, July 16, 2022 | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm GMT
Skibbereen, County Cork, P81 VW98, Ireland
Phone: +3532822090 | Email: info@westcorkartscentre.com
As an artist-in-residence at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre during June-July 2022, I am working on a site-specific body of work that draws upon the Irish language, local color, weather, light and the history of Irish landscape painting. On July 23, I will exhibit paintings in the group exhibition, Fragments in Constellation, as part of the artist collective, Re:Group. On July 28, Dawn Studio will be on site, at a special location in West Cork where the sky meets water. I will host a painting workshop beginning at sunrise, free and accessible to the local community. Further details on Re:Group’s exhibition and registration for my public engagement workshop can be found via Skibbereen Arts Festival and Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre.
Since March 2020, I have concentrated my artistic interest in the concept of the oculus, a portal of light connecting interior space to the outer environment. The shape emerged for me as I undertook Dawn Studio, an ongoing daily painting practice I commence at sunrise everyday. The paintings are made on mid-sized watercolor paper and aquaboard panels using watercolor, iridescent pigment, metallic ink and gouache, that inform larger paintings on canvas with acrylic ink, watercolor pencil, interference and acrylic paint.
In these early morning hours, I begin by looking out the windows at the changing light and color over the horizon and Hudson river: a meeting of sky and water that dramatically shifts through the seasons and weather. These views create multiple afterimages – residues of the morning light that remain in my eyes. Using fluid brushwork, I create curvilinear shapes with a glowing lacuna at the center. This gap, which I identify as an oculus, is an interior space that oscillates, attempting to merge with its surroundings. Its center is unstable, like the eye of a hurricane that changes shape or direction suddenly. These forms hover between abstraction and representation, yet refer distinctly to place.
Lisa Blas | Skibbereen, Ireland
July 12, 2022
Greetings to all on this day of the summer solstice!
I am currently Artist-in-residence, at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Ireland, June - July 2022. While in the region, I am working on a site-specific body of work that draws upon local color, weather, light, and the history of Irish landscape painting. Parallel to this research, I am thinking about the notion of islands that embody personal and communal origins, formal circularity and interstitial spaces on the periphery.
In July, Dawn studio will be on site, in a special location where the sky meets water. I will host a painting workshop at sunrise, free and accessible to the local community. Stay tuned for further details on my public engagements and Open Studio via Instagram and Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre.
Lisa Blas
06 | 05 | 21, 6:02 am
Watercolor, metallic ink, dye-based ink and gouache on watercolor paper, 12 x 12 inches, 2021
Lisa Blas, Artist-in-residence, studio, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Ireland, June 2022
Lisa Blas, Detail of palette notes, Watercolor, metallic ink, dye-based ink and gouache on watercolor paper, Skibbereen, Ireland, June 2022
Lisa Blas, Dawn Studio (palettes on the run), 2021. Installation street view. Windows on Latimer, The Print Center, Philadelphia.
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