Spotlight Artist

Lisa Alonzo

Northeast
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This Ain’t No Party, This Ain’t No Disco

Two-tier cake with a lit candle, grapes, and an apple, with a colorful patterned background.

acrylic and molding paste on panel

Spin

Stack of books with a glass dome, rock-like objects, clouds, and a red toy gun on the wall.

acrylic and molding paste on panel

Over Look

Glass of milk, orange slices, books, and a notebook on a patterned table.

acrylic and molding paste on panel

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Artist Statement

 I use my unique painting technique to explore a myriad of unsavory themes and make them more palatable by rendering them as heavily frosted confections. The overarching theme connecting my body of work pertains to our culture’s consumption of information and our ability to navigate our way toward authenticity and truth. By piping acrylic gel medium onto the surface with pastry bags and tips, I create a visual and tactile experience for the viewer. The end result is a painting that looks deceptively good enough to eat: an abundance of peaks, starbursts, flowers, small rhythmic dots, and ribbons of graduated color draped over decadent mounds of paint masquerading as frosting.

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