Lisa is an artist from Calgary, Alberta, who carves and paints woodblocks that are bright, graphic, one-of-a-kind pieces of folky pop art.
Artist Statement:
These new woodcuts are carved on curved oak seatbacks salvaged from the renovation of the Martha Cohen Performing Arts Theatre. Arts Commons provided me with a truckload of this carpentry grade 12 ply oak. This gave me the opportunity to work on larger surfaces and explore more ambitious themes. I don’t make prints from my woodcuts, but paint the carvings themselves.
Over the past two decades I have explored countless specific themes and ideas in my art practice. Now I find that it is this moment that bears scrutiny, with its personal entertainment bubbles, troll farms, lunar outposts, spray tans, snail mucus facials, rabbit holes, locust protein powder, real housewives, echo chambers, rabid fandoms, and hyperbolic clickbait. At a time when there is no doubt we should be tapping the brakes, instead we are going like a bat out of hell over the cliff like cartoon supervillains.
