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Interview with Meg Hitchcock: Excavating Light, Language, and Loss Through Art
Interview Kelly Curtis 9/17/23 Interview Kelly Curtis 9/17/23

Interview with Meg Hitchcock: Excavating Light, Language, and Loss Through Art

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Downtown Debut: James Isherwood & Lisa Pressman
Exhibitions Kelly Curtis 12/10/22 Exhibitions Kelly Curtis 12/10/22

Downtown Debut: James Isherwood & Lisa Pressman

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A quote from Alice Zinnes
Quote Kelly Curtis 12/7/22 Quote Kelly Curtis 12/7/22

A quote from Alice Zinnes

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Susan Eley Fine Art: In Dialogue with Lisa Pressman
Interview Kelly Curtis 6/16/22 Interview Kelly Curtis 6/16/22

Susan Eley Fine Art: In Dialogue with Lisa Pressman

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Lisa Pressman: Trusting Intuition
Essay Kelly Curtis 12/1/21 Essay Kelly Curtis 12/1/21

Lisa Pressman: Trusting Intuition

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Visual Conversations with Lisa Pressman and Sue Stover
Exhibitions Kelly Curtis 6/2/21 Exhibitions Kelly Curtis 6/2/21

Visual Conversations with Lisa Pressman and Sue Stover

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Lisa Pressman and Jim Napierala: Two-person exhibition at Susan Eley Fine Art
Exhibitions Kelly Curtis 6/2/21 Exhibitions Kelly Curtis 6/2/21

Lisa Pressman and Jim Napierala: Two-person exhibition at Susan Eley Fine Art

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Altered States
Exhibitions Kelly Curtis 6/2/21 Exhibitions Kelly Curtis 6/2/21

Altered States

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Artist Spotlight: Lisa Pressman
Interview Kelly Curtis 1/1/21 Interview Kelly Curtis 1/1/21

Artist Spotlight: Lisa Pressman

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Materiality and Mark-making in Abstraction
Classes Kelly Curtis 8/1/20 Classes Kelly Curtis 8/1/20

Materiality and Mark-making in Abstraction

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Online Learning. Crazy times.
Classes Kelly Curtis 4/10/20 Classes Kelly Curtis 4/10/20

Online Learning. Crazy times.

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Approaching Encaustic Video
Video Kelly Curtis 3/26/20 Video Kelly Curtis 3/26/20

Approaching Encaustic Video

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Back Again
Video Kelly Curtis 3/6/20 Video Kelly Curtis 3/6/20

Back Again

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Words from Artist Paula Overbay
Artists Kelly Curtis 7/1/18 Artists Kelly Curtis 7/1/18

Words from Artist Paula Overbay

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Stuart Shils Answers
Artists Kelly Curtis 2/26/18 Artists Kelly Curtis 2/26/18

Stuart Shils Answers

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The Heart Of It: Jen Tough Gallery
Exhibitions Kelly Curtis 2/23/18 Exhibitions Kelly Curtis 2/23/18

The Heart Of It: Jen Tough Gallery

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Bonny  Leibowitz answers
Artists Kelly Curtis 1/3/18 Artists Kelly Curtis 1/3/18

Bonny Leibowitz answers

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Exhibitions /  2018
Exhibitions Kelly Curtis 1/1/18 Exhibitions Kelly Curtis 1/1/18

Exhibitions / 2018

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Peter Roux answers
Artists Kelly Curtis 12/1/17 Artists Kelly Curtis 12/1/17

Peter Roux answers

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Jeanne Heifetz Answers
Artists Kelly Curtis 11/1/17 Artists Kelly Curtis 11/1/17

Jeanne Heifetz Answers

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In good company 
In Pieces: Collages
APRIL 30 - JUNE 30, 2026

Kraushaar Galleries, 15 East 71 Street, New York, 2022

 @https://www.kraushaargalleries.com/exhibitions/in-pieces-collages#tab:thumbnails
Some new work @https://www.lisapressman.net/portfolio/shape-of-memory
Fragments, edges, and the space between them.

Working with what’s worn, altered, and still present.

Part of a new installation for an upcoming exhibition at Zürcher Gallery.

#100WomenOfSpiritPlus #abstractart #mixedmedia @@zurcher_galle
I love and am thankful for Rosy this morning!
A fragment.

Part of my new series called “Acts of Small Repair.”

Painted and printed papers—torn, burned, and reassembled. Thread moves between structure and mark, holding while also revealing.

Not repaired to hide damage, but to
Spring 
Encaustic
48x36
2021
It is packed and ready to go to a new collector 

An earlier encaustic painting.
Revisiting it, I can see the beginnings of what I’m working through now—
layering, holding, fragments finding structure.

abstra
This image emerged slowly—through building, scraping, and reworking the surface.
A figure appeared, not planned, but uncovered.
It feels less like painting and more like excavation Trace(Emergence) 36 x 24 Oil and Mixed Media on panel 2026 @zur
I saw work yesterday that stayed with me.

Not as influence—but as recognition.

The way the surface could hold structure and still feel in motion—
not fixed to the wall, but shifting in space.

It clarified something I’ve been work
Torn, folded, stitched.

Not building an image—
holding a surface together. 

#stiching #artprocess #artonpaper