Lisa Williamson
Lisa Williamson’s forms are compressed articulations of quasi-relatable objects such as a door, a ladder, a hedge, or a beam. While there is a significant level of reduction and abstraction throughout the artist’s work, aspects of domestic architecture, landscape, and the figure remain visible throughout.
With a unique approach to scale and proportion, in which the artist uses her own body as the ultimate measuring device, there is a particular balance and formal terseness integral to each form. As seen in previous bodies of work by the artist, Williamson’s exploratory approach to color and intensely meticulous attention to surface results in a material ambiguity and resonance that is distinct. Her sculptures’ upright autonomous forms disrupt, envelop, and converse in space. Williamson’s landscape is one of active contemplation, a space in which standing forms animate and relate to one another and at the same time feel like discreet containers for interiority or meditation.
Williamson’s recent solo and two person exhibitions include Eleven Holes, a public art commission by LAXART at Kings Road Park, West Hollywood, Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles, The Finley, Los Angeles, The Box, with Sarah Conaway, Los Angeles. Select group exhibitions include Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, LACMA, …
Lisa Williamson’s forms are compressed articulations of quasi-relatable objects such as a door, a ladder, a hedge, or a beam. While there is a significant level of reduction and abstraction throughout the artist’s work, aspects of domestic architecture, landscape, and the figure remain visible throughout.
With a unique approach to scale and proportion, in which the artist uses her own body as the ultimate measuring device, there is a particular balance and formal terseness integral to each form. As seen in previous bodies of work by the artist, Williamson’s exploratory approach to color and intensely meticulous attention to surface results in a material ambiguity and resonance that is distinct. Her sculptures’ upright autonomous forms disrupt, envelop, and converse in space. Williamson’s landscape is one of active contemplation, a space in which standing forms animate and relate to one another and at the same time feel like discreet containers for interiority or meditation.
Williamson’s recent solo and two person exhibitions include Eleven Holes, a public art commission by LAXART at Kings Road Park, West Hollywood, Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles, The Finley, Los Angeles, The Box, with Sarah Conaway, Los Angeles. Select group exhibitions include Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, CCA Andratx Kunsthalle, Mallorca, Spain.
Courtesy of Shane Campbell Gallery