.lisa.solberg.

I want to make something abundantly clear: I do not know the first thing about visual art. I have never taken a single class or read a single book. So when I make statements about the art that I post here, it is only my humble opinion which I’m sure is influenced by my musical training. I do believe that all art forms are alternative avenues of communication. Not in a very typical sense of communicating, but in the sense that something that is of the artist is externalized to the medium. Is it meant for others to decode? Maybe. I imagine it’s often simply a personal catharsis and if an observer extracts meaning then that’s a separate process. Is it truthful? Hopefully.

Last night I came across the work of LA painter Lisa Solberg. She approaches the canvas in a very uninhibited and unpremeditated way. Action-painting is the term for this style that she subscribes to, where spontaneous, swooping brush strokes and splashes of paint take the place of careful composition. For Solberg, her work is more about the process and the unconscious expression than the message.