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Lisa Haddad |
Lisa Haddad lives in the Nashville area where she paints 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.
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. Careful deliberation of color palette followed by a completely-eyes-closed session of two-handed finger-painting; she found the results exciting and surprisingly well-composed. As a result, she has created more than 50 ECHO Paintings on paper, each an act of trust.
Lisa’s abstract and mixed media paintings have been exhibited in Tennessee, Indiana, California, Italy and New Zealand and they often incorporate paper and fabric elements, which she finds can simultaneously sabotage and solve her compositions. Her most recent mixed media series uses papers found on the streets of Santa Barbara where she used to live.
“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 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 diversity of other artists in local exhibits. She finds collaboration to be a highly enriching and humbling process and has combined efforts with artists in the Pacific Northwest and in Nashville as a member of “The Four Corners”. 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. Careful deliberation of color palette followed by a completely-eyes-closed session of two-handed finger-painting; she found the results exciting and surprisingly well-composed. As a result, she has created more than 50 ECHO Paintings on paper, each an act of trust.
Lisa’s abstract and mixed media paintings have been exhibited in Tennessee, Indiana, California, Italy and New Zealand and they often incorporate paper and fabric elements, which she finds can simultaneously sabotage and solve her compositions. Her most recent mixed media series uses papers found on the streets of Santa Barbara where she used to live.
“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 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 diversity of other artists in local exhibits. She finds collaboration to be a highly enriching and humbling process and has combined efforts with artists in the Pacific Northwest and in Nashville as a member of “The Four Corners”. Most recently she has worked side-by-side with artist Eva Sochorova with whom she has found a rare, artistic relationship.
