Lisa Sousa (she, her, hers) — Group 5

Artist Statement:
I’m inspired by philosophical ideas concerning digitality and abstraction’s uneasy relationship to the decorative. My paintings—geometric and highly structured—recall the information architecture of online spaces. Whimsical squiggly lines intersect grid formations, suggesting shifts in being and movement while alluding to the permeable boundary between digital and analog. At the same time, motifs derived from textiles, architecture, and tilework are reinterpreted as a challenge to pejorative connotations associated with the decorative. Oriented as vertical rectangles, my paintings intimate screens, windows, or perhaps playing cards as overlapping shapes and patterns create an embodied optical experience and invite limitless associations to things beyond sight.

Flocking, gouache and watercolor on handmade paper, 20" x 16", 2024

Blue Tiles, watercolor on handmade paper, 20" x 16", 2024

Pink Cosmic Playing Card, watercolor on paper, 30" x 23", 2024

Interference Diamonds, watercolor on paper, 30" x 23", 2023

The Grid, watercolor on paper, 30" x 23", 2023

Receding Ornament, watercolor and gouache on paper, 46” x 30”, 2024

Leno Weave in Flux, gouache and watercolor on paper, 60" x 42", 2023

Red Ribbon, gouache and watercolor on paper, 23" x 60", 2024

Modalities, watercolor on paper, 42" x 30", 2024