ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Lisle's art career got started in the late 70's and early 80's with 6 successive one-person exhibitions at galleries in New York City, East Hampton, Cold Spring Harbor and in various other towns throughout Long Island. Her works have been included in many group exhibitions throughout this region and are in numerous corporate and private collections.

Her reviews, from these shows, describe her work as, "romantic abstractions filled with imaginative atmospheric drama.....intensely pleasurable experiences to behold.....the works soar into space, with ingenious ideas." In Lisle's show entitled 'ENERGY', the paintings were called "powerful.....dynamic in quality, unique in their approach and charged with movement.....the colors are prismatic and energized.....nothing about her work is run of the mill".

For the past twenty-five years Lisle has owned and operated a wallpaper business, which has kept her away from pursuing her art career professionally, until recently. But she has never stopped painting and creating artwork. She built an artistís studio in 2002 and has quietly continued to produce a substantial body of work based on similar themes, thought and emotions that have always fascinated her.

Lisleís studio is located in Huntington, NY. She graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University, in 1977.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

My thoughts and themes have been the same as throughout my career but more refined and focused. My work concentrates on the theme of balancing peace of mind with chaos, of being responsible as well as being happy, of life being brilliantly jumbled and vividly stable all at the same time. I try to express, visually and conceptually the possibility of successfully and quietly living in a world of constant conflicting emotions.

All the works are done in oils and acrylics on canvas, photography and acrylics on paper, in very personal collage formats. This format is an extension of what I do all day as a way to make a living. Precision cutting.

Each piece of art is layered and cut into with a razor knife, creating sharp angular lines combined with smooth flowing lines. The finished pieces are structured, landscape oriented abstractions made from instinctive, emotional combinations. The idea is to create a vision of life as a balancing act between opposing emotions through color, shapes and lines. To embrace serenity in a chaotic world I visualize and create energy surrounded by silence, organized confusion, or the feelings of fear, frustration and anger set in a calm and quiet environment. I use real objects such as crystals, in seemingly unrealistic settings, to represent opposing emotions coexisting in unison. Landscapes and all things in nature appear in my artwork. Weather, seasons, water and plant forms are all used, as well, to suggest balancing conflict. Finally, the title of each piece lets the viewer see, feel and identify with the emotions being expressed.

ARTIST'S RESUME

Media: Oil & acrylic on canvas. Canvas collages. Acrylic collages on paper.
Abstract photos and photo collages.
Style: Modern Expressionism
Personal: Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi
Raised and lives in Huntington, Long Island, NY
Education: B.F.A. in Painting and Lithography: Carnegie-Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA
1982- Present: Owner and Operator of Lisle & Co. Wallpaper Inc.

One Person Exhibitions

12/2007  Luminary Scapes: Cymboline Gallery, Oyster Bay, NY
07/1981    Rocks & Auroras: Harbor Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
               Reviewed: Newsday 7/81
12/1980  Energy: Village Square Gallery, Glen Cove, NY
               Reviewed: Newsday 12/80
05/1980    Captured Landscapes: Vered International Art Gallery, East Hampton, NY
04/1980    Works on Paper: St. John’s Church, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
10/1979  Landscapes in Space: Glen Cove Bank, Glen Cove, NY
               Reviewed: Newsday 11/79
06/1979    Rocks and Shadows: West Broadway Gallery, Soho, NY
12/1977  Lisle Spilman: Ellis Gallery Carnegie Mellon University: Pittsburgh, PA
10/1976  Lisle Spilman: The Velar Gallery: Pittsburgh PA

Group Exhibitions

01/2008  The Masters Show; La Petite Gallery, Huntington, NY prize winner
10/2007  Artrageous: Bloomingdales Dept. Store window display, Huntington NY
08/2007    The Masters Show: La Petite Gallery, Huntington, NY prize winner
12/1981  The Collage Medium: Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida
03/1981    Long Island Preserved: Lakewood Gallery, Glen Cove, NY
02/1981    Color on Canvas: Perlman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
12/1980  In The Best Tradition: Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
               Reviewed: New York Times 12/1980
01/1980    Gallery Artists: Wollheim- Rosenquist Galleries, Tucson, Arizona
10/1980  Nature Conservancy Art Exhibition: Cold Spring Harbor, NY
               Reviewed: Newsday 10/1980
01/1980    Painters Devoted to Painting: Miriam Perlman Gallery, Flint Michigan
10/1979  Viewpoints: Newsday Corporation, Long Island NY
10/1979  In The Best Tradition: Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
03/1979    Art For Public Places: Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, Michigan
12/1979  Invitational Christmas Exhibition: Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
03/1979    The Private Collection of Eva Ingersoll Gatling: The Parish Art Museum, South Hampton, NY
02/1978    A Director’s Choice: Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
               Reviewed: 2/1978
12/1977  Long Island Nature Conservancy Exhibit: Cold Spring Harbor, NY
01/1977    Three Artists: Forbes Street Galley, Pittsburgh, PA

Public Collections

The Houston Oil and Mineral Corporation
Data Resources Inc, NYC, NY
Mobil Oil Corporation, Washington D.C.
Roosevelt Hospital, NYC, NY
Cold Spring Harbor Research Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Don Laidlaw Assoc. Planning Consultants, Santa Rosa, California
G.D.C. Electric Company, Westbury, NY
Graduate School of Industrial Administrations, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
St. John’s Church, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Michigan Telephone Company, Minnesota
Newsday Corporation, Melville, NY
Geico Insurance Company, Westbury, NY
Heckscher Mueseum, Huntington, NY
The Pensacola Art Museum, Pensacola, Florida