Lisa Warren’s latest paintings are grounded in her previous, extensive explorations of portraiture. Her subjects, always situated within swirling worlds of pattern, texture, and color, have now been subsumed by them, giving birth to lively abstract forms. They have shifted from realistic imagery to shapes, dots, and splashes of color that weave and layer together into a tapestry. The focus shifts from the figures themselves to the shapes around them.
Her work depicts an interior landscape, mingling the personal with the abstract. The process of building and working within parameters—the outlines of human forms, or an irregular grid—allows oblique, autobiographical references to emerge. Scattered dots break out of the grid, creating a sense of movement, light and space, as if a seeing a garden within a galaxy.
