Lisa Adams

Garis & Hahn is pleased to present A Piebald Era, marking Downtown Los Angeles-based painter Lisa Adams's debut solo show with the gallery. Occupying the liminal space between abstraction and representation, the imaginary and the real, Adams's highly original paintings depict scenes which lie at the intersection where nature meets the brutality of the man-made, as filtered through a uniquely otherworldly prism. Derived from the artist's photographs and experiences as well as her personal imaginings, Adams's idiosyncratic paintings are an admixture of fact and fantasy, amalgamated fragments manifesting in a disjointed whole, a skewed world that is seemingly falling apart.

Lisa Adams lives and works in downtown Los Angeles, California. She has a B.A. from Scripps College in Claremont, CA and an M.F.A. from the Claremont Graduate University. Adams is in the public collections of the Eli Broad Corporate Collection, the Edward Albee Foundation, the San Jose Museum of Art, USC Fisher Museum of Art, the Laguna Museum of Art and the Long Beach Museum of Art among others. Her public art commissions include the Chatsworth Orange Line Metro Station; Fire Station No. 64, Watts, South Los Angeles; the West Valley Branch Library, Reseda; and the BMW art car at the ART/LA Art Fair. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Fulbright Professional Scholar Award, a Brody Arts Fund Fellowship, and an ARC Grant.