Lisa Alonzo
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.