Artist Bio
Lisa Goren was born in California and raised in NYC. And yet she has dreamed of Polar landscapes since she was in her teens. Her first trip to Antarctica inspired her to capture this world. Travels to Iceland and Alaska followed. Her watercolors examine this unfamiliar landscape and create questions about the nature of abstraction and our planet with her representations of unfamiliar, threatened terrains. Earning a place on the 2013 Arctic Circle Residency, she chronicled the journey in the New York Times (http://nyti.ms/1PAO5mr). During the Pandemic, she has been working on smaller paintings of animals in “human” spaces as well as portraits of health care workers (chosen to be in The Best Art Created by Washington Post Readers During the Pandemic by Washington Post). In 2024, Lisa participated in two artist residencies: in Iceland (January) and France (October). Lisa heads to Nantucket and France for residencies in 2025.
Materials and Techniques: I work exclusively with watercolors. Using wet on wet techniques on different surfaces enables me to highlight the luminosity of the medium.
My paintings are based on my travels to Polar regions and on animals. Both series reflect my love and respect for the natural world.
Website: http://www.lisagorenpaintings.
Facebook: Watercolors by Lisa Goren
Instagram : @lisafgoren
