December 8 – December 31, 2011
Ice Cube Gallery at the Dry Ice Factory
3300 Walnut St
Denver, CO 80205
303.292.1822
Fri: 12-9pm; Sat: 12-5pm (Extended hours on Second Saturdays to 7pm)
http://icecubegallery.com
Studio located at 1320 27thSt., Denver, CO
River North Arts District
Member of RINO Arts District
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Lisa Kowalski in NwModern Exhibition
presented by 
Alicia Blue Gallery, Portland Oregon
http://halfdozengallery.com/blog/lisa-kowalski-in-nwmodern-exhibition
Into the Brilliance - Half/Dozen Gallery, Portland Oregon
solo showing of new paintings September 2 – October 23, 2010New Work at Ironton Gallery with Sculptor John Ferguson www.irontonstudios.com/ 3636 Chestnut Pl., Denver Colorado
FOG - Half/Dozen Gallery
Group Show
April 1 – May 2, 2010
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Art Club - Half/Dozen Gallery
Group Show
September 3 – 26, 2009
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10Paintings – Half/Dozen Gallery
April 2 – May 6, 2009
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Bluestone Gallery
First Fridays, 6pm-9pm
3377 Blake St. Denver, Co
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Fresh Paint – NavtaSchulz Gallery
September 7 – October 13, 2007
www.navtaschulzgallery.com
Exhibition – bridgeArtFair in London
October 11-14, 2007
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Spring Show
April 26-28, 2008
Invitation
Arts
By Michael Paglia Wednesday, Jun 22 2011
New Paintings by Lisa Kowalski
There’s a good-looking pair of solos showcasing Colorado artists at Ironton:
On the walls are some great neo-abstract-expressionist paintings by Kowalski. Though she is little known in Denver, where she lives, Kowalski has exhibited nationally and, considering the high quality of these paintings, will hopefully do so around here as well. In these paintings, she experiments with different types of compositions; some feature all-over scribbles, while others combine color fields with slashing brushstrokes. A few even include lines and grids. Somehow they all work together seamlessly. Through June 25 at Ironton Gallery, 3636 Chestnut Place, www.irontonstudios.com.
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Curbs and Stoops, The Scoop on Contemporary Art – www.curbsandstoops.com
September 1st, 2010 by Chloe
Lisa Kowalski’s love of painting is evident the moment you set eyes on one of her dynamic, succinct compositions. Reminiscent of Abstract Expressionism at it’s best, Kowalski seems to share her own intimate dialect with color and line. Her work has a startling honesty to it. The viewer has an immediate emotional response that leaves an indelible impression. They remind me of the livid purple bruises that appear on the inside of your eyelids when you look directly into the sun: vibrant but elusive, hard to define. I recall that while studying art history I struggled to learn the language of abstract painting. It was difficult for me talk about work that possessed no easily recognizable visual symbols. For me they often read like sheet music without notes. It was only the work that achieve that illusory symbiosis between simplicity and abandon that I felt any connection to. The kind of work that was purely sensory, like Mark Rothko; a raw feeling on canvas. Kowalski’s paintings possess this kind of balance. They are simple without being empty; elegant and sparing.
In her statement Kowalski writes, “I am in love with the eloquence of sparseness and everything to do with the act of painting: the smell, the lushness of oil paint, color.” Her technique is spontaneous and unmitigated. Inspiration “gets channeled and flows from brain to arm, hitting white board with that first wonderful stroke of vibrant color, and continues with adding and subtracting, stripping down to the most essential.” Her new body of work, “Into the Brilliance,” consists of large and small scale wet-on-wet oil paintings. The show will be opening Thursday, September 2nd at Portland’s Half/Dozen Gallery.
Lisa Kowalski currently lives and works in Denver, CO. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL in 1988. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally including the Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL; Aqua Art Fair, Miami, Fl; Bridge Art Fair, London, UK; Square 101 Gallery, Denver, CO; NavtaSchulz Gallery, Chicago, IL; Half/Dozen Gallery, Portland, OR; Lafontsee Galleries, Grand Rapids, MI.
Art By Artists We Know-November 2010
http://www.doublebutter.com/index.php?/ART-BY-ARTISTS-WE-KNOW-LISA-KOWALSKI.htm
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