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                              LISA GOLIGHTLY

ARTIST STATEMENT

The starting place for my work is decades old found photos. The stillness of a photo belies an anticipation to know what happened before and what is to come next. These images are a literal look back but also force the viewers to evaluate the present and future.  

The act of transforming a photo into a painting with both traditional brush strokes, as well as allowing the paint to pool and move, serves to expose and transcend the nature of the materials.  This process reflects my intention to modify and reduce the details of the image.

My paintings seek to capture attempts to freeze moments and the inherent flaws in doing so.  While my work often contains a sense of stillness and quiet found in photos, memory is in constant motion, changing, evolving or disappearing.  My work explores this unstable and easily altered medium we so heavily rely on.  Ultimately, I attempt to discover if these absences of details allow for the images to resonate with more clarity and depth.

BIOGRAPHY
Lisa Golightly received her BFA in studio art from the University of Arizona.  Her work has appeared in exhibitions throughout the West Coast and Northeast and has appeared in Luxe Magazine, Huffington Post, Colorado House and Home Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal’s Art Guide, among others.  She currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon.


RESUME


EDUCATION 
1996 BFA in Studio Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 
2020  Marking Time, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020  Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019  George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Thoughts on Summer, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 

2018  Recent paintings, Clove and Creek, Kingston, New York  
2016  If Only For A Little While, Good Eye Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2014  Fade Away, Push Dot Studio, Portland, OR 
2014  Endless summer, Good Eye Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012  Boys Will Be Boys, Blackbird Attic, Beacon, NY
2010  Tilde, Portland, OR
2009  Tilde, Portland, OR 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
2020  Art Palm Springs, George Billis Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2019  The Cityscape Show IX, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019  Gallery artist group show, Linda Hodges, Seattle, WA
2019  Seattle Art Fair, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019  Art Market San Francisco, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019  Art Palm Springs, George Billis Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2019  Venice Art Walk, Venice Beach, CA
2018  Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA

2018  The Cityscape Show VIII, George Billis Gallery Los Angeles, CA
2018  Art Market, George Billis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018  Art Palm Springs, George Billis Gallery, Palm Springs, CA 

2017  Good Eye Gallery, Girl crush, Los Angeles Jen Tough Gallery, California: Weird, Wonderful and Wild, San Francisco 
2016  Images of Summer, Art House LA, Los Angeles, CA ON COLORING, An Exhibition on Art History & Coloring, Pushdot Studio, Portland, OR Fresh Start, Los Angeles, CA 
2015  The Sarah Spurgeon Gallery at Central Washington University High Tide, Dossier Outpost, NY, NY 
2014  Creative Block, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA Consenses, Martha’s Vineyard 
2013  Good Eye Gallery Deasy Penner, Pasadena, CA Good Eye Gallery Curve Line Space, Eagle Rock, CA 
2010  Story of a Secret State, Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst, NSW Australia storyofvoices.com Olio United, Portland, OR 
2010  Portland Fashion Week, Portland, OR 2009 Playground, Bowery Hotel, NYC 

PUBLICATIONS 
2020  Ppaper Magazine, special issue, Taiwan
2018  Luxe Interiors and Design 
2018  Huffington Post, 19
2017  Lula Magazine, Memories, issue 6, March 2017

2017  Colorado House and Home, Nov/Dec 2017
2015  Daily Habits of Artists That Can Help Unlock Your Creativity, June 6, 2015
2015  Fresh Paint Magazine, spotlight artist, issue 7, April 2015 
2015  Slice Magazine, issue 16 spring/summer 2015
2014  The Wall Street Journal, The WSJ’s Art Guide, December 18, 2014
2014  Creative Block Book, Danielle Krysa, 2014
2013  Installation Magazine, A. Moret, Lisa Golightly: Flooded, July 2013
2012  Penduline Press, featured artist, issue 3, 2012 

OTHER 
2020  Art on a postcard auction for International Women’s Day, London
2020  Venice Art Walk, Juried. Venice Beach, CA
2019  Artist Residency, Chateau Orquevaux
2018  Feature on Ignant, Nostalgia Reigns In The Paintings Of Lisa Golightly, May 

2017  Venice Art Walk, Juried. Venice Beach, CA
2016  Venice Art Walk, Juried. Venice Beach, CA
​2015  Album cover and interior art, Alec Lyttle, The End of Ours 
          Portland Open Studios Tour, Juried, Portland, OR 

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