LISA FISCHETTI

bio

Lisa Fischetti received her BA in Art History from Vassar College in 1978 and her MArch from the University of Virginia in 1982. She studied painting while at Vassar and at UVA, including a semester in Venice. She has been practicing architecture, designing furniture and painting for the last thirty-five years and has been an adjunct faculty member in the School of Architecture at NJIT in Newark, NJ. Her work is included in private collections throughout the United States and China. Lisa currently lives in Hopewell Township, NJ where she has her design and paint studio. Lisa has been a member of SOHO20 since 2012.

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statement

“I have been an architectural designer, furniture designer, and a painter for the last forty years and these three pursuits have had a profound effect on each other. One consistent endeavor in all of my work is the organization and alignment of elements, both solids and voids, within a mathematical grid, creating continuity and an ambiguity between edge, line and space. As architecture and furniture have a clear structure and weightiness, so do my paintings. They are as concerned with being an object, as about painting itself.

In my paintings, I am interested in separating the layer of paint, or applied paper or wood from the surface (typically a wood panel) that it covers. This layer is cut away at or peeled off, revealing the underside of the panel and making the work 3 dimensional. The vulnerability of the material is revealed by the natural tears and splintering that occurs while being removed and separated from the surface. This layer is an emotive skin creating a tension between itself, the surface it’s attached to and the space around it.

My medium is oil paint, wood, and paper on wood panels.” – Lisa D. Fischetti

work

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