LISA GOLIGHTLY: Summer's Over
October 15 - November 12, 2022
Reception: Saturday, October 15, 4-7pm
Artist Statement
The starting place for my work is decades old found photos. The stillness of a photo belies an anticipation to know what happened before and what is to come next. These images are a literal look back but also force the viewers to evaluate the present and future.
The act of transforming a photo into a painting with both traditional brush strokes, as well as allowing the paint to pool and move, serves to expose and transcend the nature of the materials. This process reflects my intention to modify and reduce the details of the image.
My paintings seek to capture attempts to freeze moments and the inherent flaws in doing so. While my work often contains a sense of stillness and quiet found in photos, memory is in constant motion, changing, evolving or disappearing. My work explores this unstable and easily altered medium we so heavily rely on. Ultimately, I attempt to discover if these absences of details allow for the images to resonate with more clarity and depth.
Lisa Golightly is an artist living in Portland, Oregon. With a BFA in art, her initial focus was photography, the influence of which can be seen in her paintings. Her work revolves around memory and how snapshots shape, influence, change and even create memory. She works with acrylic and house paint, using found photos to create work that is both anonymous in nature but also very personal.
The act of transforming a photo into a painting with both traditional brush strokes, as well as allowing the paint to pool and move, serves to expose and transcend the nature of the materials. This process reflects my intention to modify and reduce the details of the image.
My paintings seek to capture attempts to freeze moments and the inherent flaws in doing so. While my work often contains a sense of stillness and quiet found in photos, memory is in constant motion, changing, evolving or disappearing. My work explores this unstable and easily altered medium we so heavily rely on. Ultimately, I attempt to discover if these absences of details allow for the images to resonate with more clarity and depth.
Lisa Golightly is an artist living in Portland, Oregon. With a BFA in art, her initial focus was photography, the influence of which can be seen in her paintings. Her work revolves around memory and how snapshots shape, influence, change and even create memory. She works with acrylic and house paint, using found photos to create work that is both anonymous in nature but also very personal.
