Sonny And Lisa Moeckel

Contemporary portrait painters, Sonny and Lisa Moeckel, are a married artist duo who collaborate simultaneously on the same canvas using primarily oil paints by combining their abstract and realistic styles to create expressionist paintings. Sonny is an Indigenous artist who grew up on the Reservation. He is Jicarilla Apache and Navajo. Their unique collaborations evoke human emotions and vulnerability through painterly lines and vivid colors. Moeckel Studio’s artwork is included in numerous private art collections throughout the U.S and their work has been featured in many art shows and galleries, and they have won awards together for their art.

Lisa has focused mainly on realistic portraiture, while Sonny’s artistic style is more abstract. She has expanded into painting in collaborations with Sonny. They allow the painterly lines to show through in their work to display their process. Their paintings consist of many layers. Each layer takes weeks, and often months to dry. It can take years for one painting to reach completion. Their works express the balance between reality and distortion. When looking closely you can see each individual stroke of paint working together in unison to complete the picture.

Sonny and Lisa are marr...

2013 - 2017 B.A. Whitworth University

2023 Emerge Gallery - Minis Show, United States
2023 Chrysalis Gallery - Featured Artists, United States
2022 Chase Gallery - Solo Exhibition, United States
2019 Blackbird Collective - Solo Exhibition, United States
2019 Whitworth University - Solo Exhibition, United States
2017 Whitworth University - Solo Exhibition, United States