The paintings I create are based on visual and written recordings of people, places, and/or things I find interesting and in someway, feel a connection to. In my studio I transform and reduce those thoughts and feelings into paintings that reflect on those experiences and personal attachments. I work in oil, which gives me the freedom to create layered, transparent, and textural surfaces that allows me to engage the viewer in not only the colors, lines, and shapes used, but also to provide a connection between me and my audience. Abstraction allows me to explore, adopt, adapt, and reflect on life experiences through documenting specific moments in time.

I am another kind of storyteller, one that reads visual information for it's gestural content and cultural worth. I often play with imagery that emphasizes the performative nature of human presence, experience, interaction, and bodily representation. In making my work I am most interested in collapsing distances between subjects and viewers.
As part of my studio process, I often stage performances or break apart graphics, film, video, and photography to reduce aspects of gesture into elements of visual semiotics, capable of articulating familiarity and a certain degree of social contrast with widespread audiences.

http://www.lisaulik.com/