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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
