About

Lisa Rock was born in 1985 in Marlborough, MA, and currently lives and works in Oakland, CA. She received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Rock has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center and the Black Rock Desert NCA (AIR) program. Recent solo exhibitions include In Bloom at Nick Ryan Gallery in Boulder, CO, Overgrowth at Johansson Projects in Oakland. Select group shows include Swelter, at Good Mother Gallery, Flowers at Pacific Saw Works. She recently created a two wall mural, Welcome to My Home, for the Google Art Program at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, CA in celebration of the 20th anniversary of YouTube.

Rock’s paintings transform scenes from her everyday life into studies on perception. Drawing from botanicals found in her neighborhood and personal objects, her dense paintings have a graphic quality creating pattern-like fields while simultaneously using color and overlapping shapes to play with space. She is interested in exploring the decorative elements of the spaces we inhabit as a way to blur the line between representation and abstraction.