Lisa Rock

I am drawn to the relationship between natural and human-made forms. Snapshots of my everyday surroundings become source material for my work. Although I often work from photographs, my work doesn’t aim to be photorealistic. I work in a reductive manner that has a tendency to flatten space, merging the many layers of an image into a single plane. The images become studies of formal issues such as color, pattern, and composition. 

Lisa Rock (b. 1985 in Marlborough, Massachusetts) is a painter living in Oakland. She received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Recent solo exhibitions include Merge Visible at NIAD Art Center in Richmond, CA and a solo exhibition at the Monterey Museum of Art’s Currents Gallery. Rock was an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center and will be joining the Black Rock Desert NCA Artist in Residenc program Summer of 2022. She paints out of her studio in Alameda, Ca.

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