Lisa Baack

Lisa Baack was born and raised in California. She began showing her work in solo and gtoup exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1971. She lived in Marin County California until moving to Washington state in 1986.
She currently resides with her husband in Olympia, Washington.

Nature is the inspiration for much of Lisa Baack's work with focus on light and color, the interaction of figure and ground, and the relationship between form and space. The paintings are always an abstraction from the reality of the subject. She endeavors to capture the 'essence' or 'spirit' of the image or environment that is portrayed. The medium is worked--the paint pushed and pulled until the idea, which is the thought and intent, and the painting become one.

Sacred Geometry is used in many paintings as a means to lay down a grid that flows from without and runs through the painting connecting the piece to all space-infinity. Believing the framework of a work of art to be its most sacred and also its deepest poetry, the framework in the form of a grid, is often allowed to become an integral visual part of the painting. This layout, the proportions of the canvas, and the placement of the image on the canvas, are calculated by the artist'...

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA;
San Jose State University, BA, San Jose, CA;
Post Graduate Studies: Study of Visual Perception, UC Berkeley, Ext.;
Study of Photography, UC Berkeley, Ext.;
Master of Fine Arts Program, JFK University, "Art and Consciousness" study, Moraga, CA.
Study of Sacred Geometry and Quantum Physics, School of Ancient Wisdom, RSE, Yelm, WA.
Instructor of Workshops in Perception through UC Extension, San Francisco and Mill Valley, CA

Lisa Baack's work has been shown in many Solo Exhibitions in California (San Francisco, Oakland, San Rafael, Davis, Sacramento, Mill Valley, Larkspur, Stinson Beach, and Belvedere), in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in Amarillo, Texas, in Honolulu, Hawaii and in Washington State (Olympia, Gig Harbor, Ocean Shores, Quilcene, Hoodsport, and Bremerton)

Extensive Group Exhibitions and juried shows including Galleries and Museums in California, New Mexico, Texas, Hawaii and Washington State.
Lisa's work is in many private collections as well as notable Corporate collections.