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Lisa Haddad |
Lisa Haddad lives in the Nashville area where she paints, organizes the Nashville Collage Collective and photographs the Nightscapes of the city. Originally from NYC, Lisa is a graduate of The University of California where she studied Aquatic Biology and spent her free time in the photography darkroom. Her abstract and mixed media paintings have been exhibited on 3 coasts of the US, as well as Italy and New Zealand, and they often reference imagery from her travel sketchbooks and incorporate materials picked up off the streets.
Lisa invented her new ECHO Painting technique - "Eyes Closed Hands Open" - during the Covid lockdown of 2020, as an experiment to expand her mark-making repertoire. These works on paper are a careful deliberation in color palette followed by a completely-eyes-closed session of two-handed finger-painting, the results are fresh and surprisingly composed, each an act of trust.
“Lisa Haddad’s artwork incorporates images from all facets of life — from office papers to word search puzzles — as reference to the overabundance of information and imagery in our daily lives. The resulting work emulates reality without duplicating it.” - Laura Hutson, Nashville Scene
As founder and organizer of the Nashville Collage Collective, a creative arena for exploring mixed media techniques and ideas, Lisa is constantly learning new ways to use found materials in her own work and to celebrate the range of other artists in local exhibits. She finds collaboration to be a highly enriching and humbling process. Most recently she has worked side-by-side with artist Eva Sochorova with whom she has found a rare, artistic relationship.
Lisa invented her new ECHO Painting technique - "Eyes Closed Hands Open" - during the Covid lockdown of 2020, as an experiment to expand her mark-making repertoire. These works on paper are a careful deliberation in color palette followed by a completely-eyes-closed session of two-handed finger-painting, the results are fresh and surprisingly composed, each an act of trust.
“Lisa Haddad’s artwork incorporates images from all facets of life — from office papers to word search puzzles — as reference to the overabundance of information and imagery in our daily lives. The resulting work emulates reality without duplicating it.” - Laura Hutson, Nashville Scene
As founder and organizer of the Nashville Collage Collective, a creative arena for exploring mixed media techniques and ideas, Lisa is constantly learning new ways to use found materials in her own work and to celebrate the range of other artists in local exhibits. She finds collaboration to be a highly enriching and humbling process. Most recently she has worked side-by-side with artist Eva Sochorova with whom she has found a rare, artistic relationship.
