Visiting Artist Lecture: Lisa Samudio

Art Building, Room 141
Lisa Samudio (b. 1993, Fresno, CA) is an artist newly based in Oakland, California. Raised in Albuquerque, Sumudio studied art at the University of New Mexico and trained as a sign painter with her father. Her mixed-media works on paper, wood, and canvas are the inspired merger of advertising iconography and her own obscurantist agenda. Lisa balances looseness and precision like a free-spirited tightrope walker, allowing for chance within a highly rigid structure. A literal layering of images allows her to explore transformation – her most significant preoccupation – in real time and space, along with erosion, repetition, and patterning. Her newest body of work aims to specifically translate her feelings of vulnerability in a new community, and embodies a commitment to living with and understanding change. Samudio lives in the East Bay with her nine-year-old daughter and is a garden teacher at two elementary schools in the Fruitvale area. This is her first exhibition. (Cushion Works)
Hosted by ARTS 417 Advanced Painting & Drawing.