Lisa Samalin

Studio #29

Painting is a beautiful dance that makes me feel alive. It has healed and delighted me since childhood and I hope some of that conveys. I’ve fallen in love this year with sparkly things, with layering filmy fabric over painted images, embellishing paintings on cloth with light catching rhinestones and powdery glitter all of which expresses a kind of sacredness for me. I’ve revisited painting faces I love and lately the faces and bodies of the deer as well who graciously share these woods and meadows with me. More landscapes too on wood or cloth, often with paper doll-like figures of myself collaged in. It’s been a rich year, a satisfying one, allowing myself to go where I needed to, following my own impulses in a deeper way. Another aspect of my work, creating interactive installations (1 at CAS, 2 at a solo show at Jane Street Art Center in recent years), involve life sized painted cut out people and animals who serve as a revolving cast of characters and they’ll be in and around the house to welcome you too. We await you!