By Tony Bravo
Los Angeles-born, Berlin-based artist Lisa Jo presents a new series of six new paintings with her debut presentation at Gallery Wendi Norris. The works exist in an artistic space between abstraction and figuration and resist easy interpretation.
In her work, Jo seeks the “tension between revealing and concealing” with the gallery statement noting that a “recurring yet elusive female figure emerges within these kinetic, meticulously layered compositions, but its form remains just out of reach — teetering at the edge of comprehension before slipping away.” Fittingly, the artist isn’t intending to give us clarity, but rather, provoke curiosity and keep the viewer “in a state of perpetual engagement rather than aesthetic satisfaction.”
There is a frantic beauty in the work that doesn’t require explicit understanding. The gesture, color and boldness of form all read as dynamic in person.
