Nebenan
Artist Name
Lisa Leitner
Artist Statement
Straddling abstraction and realism, I employ varied modes of expression to explore nature and memory. I draw from personal history, using remembered imagery alongside photography to examine home and belonging. Specific natural objects, such as plants and landmarks, reappear across works, carrying the essences of particular places. In this way, the interior and exterior operate as mirror images of one another, each reflecting and reshaping the other across time and perception. When we reminisce, how much was lived and how much was imagined? Which objects and landmarks tether us to specific moments in time? By drawing from what is familiar and familial, I construct images that reflect my own evolving relationship to memory, place, and identity.
Exhibition Statement
In this work, I am more specifically considering landscapes that are in between two worlds or the meeting of these different places. The digital collages combine photographs, paintings, drawings and studies, mixed media collages, family photographs, and natural homemade dyes and inks, digitally
layered using Adobe Photoshop. Photographs are sourced from family albums, images from different homes, and those I take of my surroundings and travels. Angular forms, geometric structures, and shifting light shape the collages, bringing together fragmented viewpoints and altered perspectives. The resulting images move between observation and memory, allowing multiple moments to exist within a single composition.
