Pittsburgh Artist Registry

"My work is landscape derived, yet I do not consider myself to be a landscape painter. I use elements of the landscape in an abstract manner to create work that aims toward psychologically or viscerally felt possibilities as opposed to work that is representational. In support of this overarching goal, my color choices are non-local, and the non-horizontal format is intended to further nudge the viewer toward something outside of, or in addition to, a landscape reading. 

My work begins with drawings that I make while traveling highways as a passenger in a car.  I set out to quickly record what is ahead of me before the scene passes, affording me hundreds of inherently abstract line drawings.  The structure of my work is created through an amalgamation of these drawings, many in each painting, with shapes and marks inspired by scraps of paper from my studio floor or from my collection of reference images.  The process is not dictated by any foreseen conclusion but by a sort of felt goal, a "gut vision," a search for just the right result. If I achieve my goal, it is arrived at through the organic progression of each piece, and from my strong inclination to paint something other than what is seen through the car window."   Lisa Bergant Koi