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, MA) 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 exhibitions include the solo exhibition “In Bloom” at Nick Ryan Gallery in Boulder, CO and a two-person exhibition “Roadside Attraction: Lisa Rock and Courteny Sennish” at TMCC in Reno, NV. Rock was an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center and participated in the Black Rock Desert NCA Artist in Residence program. She paints out of her studio in Emeryville, CA.
