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Interviews & Essays
Interview with Meg Hitchcock: Excavating Light, Language, and Loss Through Art
Interview with Meg Hitchcock: Excavating Light, Language, and Loss Through Art
Susan Eley Fine Art: In Dialogue with Lisa Pressman
Susan Eley Fine Art: In Dialogue with Lisa Pressman
Lisa Pressman: Trusting Intuition
Lisa Pressman: Trusting Intuition
Artist Spotlight: Lisa Pressman
Artist Spotlight: Lisa Pressman
Exhibitions & Interview / 2017
Exhibitions & Interview / 2017
Included in this book "Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century" by Anne Lee & E. Ashley Rooney.
Included in this book "Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century" by Anne Lee & E. Ashley Rooney.

On the Abstract Side, Causey Contemporary, opening 1/15
On the Abstract Side, Causey Contemporary, opening 1/15

Lisa Pressman: 'Passing Through' at Causey Contemporary
Lisa Pressman: 'Passing Through' at Causey Contemporary
Passing Through, Catalog
Passing Through, Catalog
Art as fresh as spring itself…this month in Kingston
Art as fresh as spring itself…this month in Kingston
Huffington Post | 10 most memorable paintings
Huffington Post | 10 most memorable paintings
Exhibitions
Downtown Debut: James Isherwood & Lisa Pressman
Downtown Debut: James Isherwood & Lisa Pressman
Visual Conversations with Lisa Pressman and Sue Stover
Visual Conversations with Lisa Pressman and Sue Stover
Lisa Pressman and Jim Napierala: Two-person exhibition at Susan Eley Fine Art
Lisa Pressman and Jim Napierala: Two-person exhibition at Susan Eley Fine Art
Altered States
Altered States
The Heart Of It: Jen Tough Gallery
The Heart Of It: Jen Tough Gallery
Exhibitions /  2018
Exhibitions / 2018
Exhibitions & Interview / 2017
Exhibitions & Interview / 2017
Free Passage at Addington Gallery March 3
Free Passage at Addington Gallery March 3
Lisa Pressman: ‘Passing Through’ at Causey Contemporary by John Seed
Lisa Pressman: ‘Passing Through’ at Causey Contemporary by John Seed
Between Instances: A Collaborative Project by Lisa Pressman and Krista Svalbonas
Between Instances: A Collaborative Project by Lisa Pressman and Krista Svalbonas
Paper at The Curator Gallery
Paper at The Curator Gallery
Save the Date: Friday the 13th of November: Passing Through at Causey Contemporary
Save the Date: Friday the 13th of November: Passing Through at Causey Contemporary
New Representation
New Representation
Upcoming Exhibitions
Upcoming Exhibitions
A TANGLED WEB: December 18, 2014 – January 22, 2015
A TANGLED WEB: December 18, 2014 – January 22, 2015
Save the Date: September 10th
Save the Date: September 10th

Other Artist Interviews

Interviews with Artists
Words from Artist Paula Overbay
Words from Artist Paula Overbay
Stuart Shils Answers
Stuart Shils Answers
Bonny  Leibowitz answers
Bonny Leibowitz answers
Peter Roux answers
Peter Roux answers
Jeanne Heifetz Answers
Jeanne Heifetz Answers
Paul Bowen answers
Paul Bowen answers
Diane Englander
Diane Englander
Ian White Williams
Ian White Williams
Studio Visit with Matthew Langley
Studio Visit with Matthew Langley
On Titles: Julia Schwartz
On Titles: Julia Schwartz
How do you title your paintings? Revisited with  Karen Nielsen-Fried
How do you title your paintings? Revisited with Karen Nielsen-Fried
A Studio Visit with : Brenda Goodman
A Studio Visit with : Brenda Goodman
Marie Vickerilla
Marie Vickerilla
Alyson Pou: Wherein Fury Takes Flight… the time of our silence is over
Alyson Pou: Wherein Fury Takes Flight… the time of our silence is over
Fine Tuning
Fine Tuning
A Line Holds Two Worlds

new from the Shape of Memory series.
Acrylic, thread, rust, collage on cardboard mounted on panel.
#contemporaryart
#contemporaryart
#mixedmedia
#textileart
#artcollector
I’ve been back in the studio, working through fragments—
pieces that shift, move, and find their place over time.

This is how I’ve always worked. Not toward a single image,
but through repetition, layering, and staying with the pro
A narrow passage runs through it—
part seam, part rupture—holding two conditions at once.

I’m interested in that space where something splits,
but doesn’t fully separate 

13x12 acrylic, thread, paper, smoke on cardboard moun
Working directly with the surface.

Burning, staining, watching what holds and what doesn’t.

Not trying to control it—just paying attention.

Stay with the work long enough for something real to emerge.

#mixedmedia
#contemporaryart
#pai
Fragments in process.

Painted, printed, torn, burned—pinned up to see what holds.

I’m not looking for a finished composition yet,
I’m looking for relationships.

What connects. What resists. What disappears.

This is where the wor
Some Light, 2019
30 x 30 inches, oil on panel 
Going  to  California.

We’re all looking for some light especially right now.
 
#artcurators #artforthesoul #artcollector #light
fragments

each one holds something
not a whole, but enough

paper, paint, thread 

paperart #textileart #contemporarymixedmedia
Staying with the work isn’t always easy.

Sometimes it takes a small shift—
a stitch, a mark, a conversation—
to see what’s next.

Conversations in Art has become part of how I keep going.
A space to look closely, ask question
I keep coming back to this language—
thread, rupture, repair.

Seeing what holds.
Seeing what doesn’t. 

#abstractart #mixedmedia #contemporaryart #paintingprocess #lisapressmanart