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<p>Lisa Bernstein is a Washington, DC-based artist who paints in oils and water colors. She is a member of the Capitol Hill Arts League, DC Arts Center, and American Women Artists, and shows regularly at exhibitions and events in Washington, Maryland, and Virginia. Lisa has taken workshops with artists Trisha Adams, Maggie Siner, Robert Liberace, and Ingrid Christensen. Her style is impressionistic, and combines representational and abstract elements. She works to evoke emotional reactions through color and texture in subjects ranging from flowers and still life, to people and animals, to landscapes and cityscapes.</p>
<p>American Modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe wrote, “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way — things I had no words for.” In her non-painting life, Lisa is constantly crafting language to express ideas, thoughts, and feelings. Painting is thus a means of escaping the intermediary of words, to represent and access the immediacy of senses and emotions. Lisa paints people, places, animals, and objects she cares about, in order to understand them in new ways through the process of fixing them as color, shape, texture, light, and shadow in a particular moment in time. Instead of planning the exact outcomes, she uses the actions of intense looking, and the physical scooping up paint and setting color onto the canvas, to let the subject reveal what it is trying to say. Through painting, she creates a visual memory of her life and surroundings, witnessing and recording a child, a beloved pet, a neighborhood, before it changes, before it is gone. The writer Virginia Woolf argued in “A Sketch of the Past” that the best rememberer is a painter; Lisa strives to put what she sees in her environment, and what she experiences through friends, family, and community, into paintings to create a record of memories for herself and for others.</p>
