ABOUT THE ARTIST

Lisa Shrigley's paintings focus on the human figure. She captures the complexity of character and emotion in the cut of the figure's outline, the weight of the body, and in the textured gradients of light and tone in the skin. Through carefully layered color combinations and palette knife edges, Shrigley reveals the weight of her subject’s solitude. With the absence of a face, or turned away body, she obscures her subjects identity, as if offering them a defense in anonymity. In her paintings there is a sense of continuity without redundancy and spontaneity heaped in detail. Her figures carry strength in their honesty, and power in their vulnerability.