Crawl Print

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's sacred geometry called 'rabatment'. "It is my intent, as an artist, to bring the viewer to a different perspective--to paint what is not seen. My passion for the painting is the 'spirit' in me pushing the self forward."......."When I paint, I am present in the moment."