Project Description
Lisa Bartleson, Oculus No. 6, 2017, Cast Ceramic, Linen Form, Bio-Resin on Wood, 24″ D.
ARTIST RECEPTION
Saturday, December 2 , 2017, 5pm to 7pm
Facebook Event Page
EXHIBITION DATES
November 15, 2017, to January 2, 2018
Nancy Toomey Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Lisa Bartleson entitled Full Bloom on view from November 15, 2017, to January 2, 2018. The gallery is located inside San Francisco’s Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street. The public is invited to the artist reception on Saturday, December 2, from 5pm to 7pm. Join the event page here.
Lisa Bartleson’s latest project, Full Bloom, sharpens her increasingly narrative abstraction with cool colors that highlight the interconnectedness of the personal to the universal. With an emphasis on the feminine form, Bartleson examines the circle, the symbolic womb and doorway to both cosmological order and empirical wisdom. Within her formal investigation, this shape is used as a symbol for what sustains us: intuition and memory. She bridges the personal with the historic, this time using the ancient signifier of sacred space from where everyone is born.
Lisa Bartleson, Oculus No 1, 2017, Cast Ceramic, Linen Form, Bio-Resin on Wood, 24″ D.
Lisa Bartleson, Foundation No 1 and 2, 2017, Cast Bio-Resin, Pigments, 6 x 6 x 6 Inches
Primal bio-resin houses extend the metaphor of how and where we bloom. These new dwellings glow with a rich and radiant light, evidence of the ancient metaphor of house as the space of beginnings and safety. Traditionally, houses offer sanctuary and Bartleson deftly creates objects that remind us that we are always agents of our own becoming.
Lisa Bartleson, Sky Gradient No. 7, 2014, Cast Bio-Resin, Pigments, 52 x 57 x 3 Inches
Artist Lisa Bartleson in Petaluma, Photo by Meghan Nelson, 2017
In early 2016 Lisa Bartleson moved from Los Angeles to Petaluma, drawn to the city’s diffused light, vast open space, and small town feel, reminiscent of the Pacific Northwest where she was born and raised. In 2018 the artist will exhibit her body of work Kindred at the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, California. Her work was also in the exhibition Work Over School: Art From The Margins of the Inside at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, which focused on artists who have developed great conceptual and technical skill through nontraditional means. Her work is in public and private collections throughout the US and Europe.