Oars/The Journey

American born artist Lisa Petsu (b.1973) received her B.F.A from the School of Visual Arts, NYC (1995) and her M.F.A from Bard College, NY (1999) where she received the Elaine de Kooning Memorial Scholarship in painting. She creates idiosyncratic abstract paintings, assemblage and installation art that is highly textural, using objects and narratives from her lived experience. Her work entertains the edge between the art space of galleries and domestic architecture of personal life. “The vantage of Petsu’s contentious “life of imperfection” gives rise to “ugly beauty” an intricate reality in which all things do not neatly fit” – Arlene Raven, curator. Honored as Ida Applebroog’s protégé in the show titled, “The Choice”, her work was reviewed in the New York Times and NY Arts magazine. She received an emerging artist grant from Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ. She lives in Clifton, NJ.