Lisa Ostapinski
Encaustic Painting
Lisa Ostapinski is a painter and art educator based in Oakland, CA. She works with unusual materials and processes including metal leaf gilding, encaustic painting (beeswax), sgraffito and oil paint marbling. Her work juxtaposes archaic media with modern forms producing a fresh, contemporary take on these art historical techniques. Lisa’s imagery pulls from a diverse array of sources including textile and jewelry design, architecture, modern painting, the natural world, scientific illustration, religious painting and spiritual symbolism. She chooses lustrous, visually rich materials such as gold leaf and beeswax for their natural beauty as well as their historical use in European religious painting to evoke the divine. Lisa’s work is an exploration of the potential for abstract forms and luminous materials to communicate ideas about the spiritual realm.
Exhibitions, Current and Upcoming
December 2023 Illumination: The Sacred Aspect of Light, Electra Gallery, New Mexico
December 2023 Hardly Strictly Mini, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
July 2021- Ongoing Belljar, Los Angeles, CA
July 2021- Ongoing Moonastar, Topanga Canyon, CA
Selected Exhibitions, Past
September 2023 - Tama One, Olema, CA
September 12 2022- December 2022 Vintage Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
October 16th- December 2021 Tint Gallery, San Francisco, CA
July 15 - September 2021 The Parador, Santa Fe, New Mexico
November-January 2020 Edo, San Francisco, CA
September 2019 Local Language Gallery, Oakland CA
August 2019 Morningtide, Albany CA
March-August 2019 Botanic and Lux, Santa Cruz CA
October-August 2019 Midnight Kin, Placerville, CA
August-August 2019 Moonastar, Topanga Canyon, CA
November-August 2019 BellJar, Los Angeles, CA
October-December 2018 Rarebird, Oakland, CA
August-September 2018 Namaste Yoga, Los Angeles, CA
August 11- October 11 2018 Oxtail Gallery, Berkeley, CA
June-September 2018 Kitkitdizzi, Nevada City, CA
March-June 2018 Neeko, Berkeley, CA
February-May 2018 Anna Ray Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
November-Jan 2017/2018 Erica Tanov, Berkeley and San Rafael CA
October-December 2017 Dandelion Post, Oakland CA
August-October 2017 Virago Gallery, Seattle, WA
Summer-Fall 2017 Oxtail Gallery, Berkeley, CA
June-August 2017 Onyx, San Francisco, CA
June-August 2017 Shipwrecked, Portland, OR
March-April 2017 Crimson Horticultural Rarities, Oakland, CA
January 2017 Edo Salon and Gallery, San Francisco, CA
September 2016 Ver Unica, San Francisco, CA
July 2016 Resurrect, Oakland, CA
June 2016 Wild Child, Oakland, CA
February 2009 Freak Of Nature, Co-curated with Gabriel Scott
111 Minna, SF, CA
September 2006 Supernatural
21 Grand, Oakland, CA
August 2006 Not From This World, with Ezra Eismont
Inferno Gallery, Oakland, CA
July 2006 Community Virology
Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA
May 2006 Weird Science, solo exhibition
Mama Buzz, Oakland, CA
February 2006 Collect: Inside 8/3
Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
January 2006 People, Places and Things
R and F Gallery, Kingston, NY
October 2005 Botanica
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
October 2005 “4-Thought”
Contract Design Center, San Francisco, CA
August 2005 New Visions: Introductions 2005
Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
December 2004 Gingerbread House
Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA
August 2004 Kaufman Gallery
Gloucester, MA
June 2003 The Whole Ball of Wax
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
February, 2003 Paxton Gate, San Francisco, CA
Education
1998 Bachelor of Arts, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2010 Master of Art and Art Education, The Teachers College, Columbia University, NY
Interviews/Press
https://create-magazine.com/features/lisa-ostapinski
http://blog.littlepaperplanes.com/now-featuring-lisa-ostapinski/
http://www.designsponge.com/2016/11/a-family-home-in-oakland-ca-full-of-color-joyful-noise.html
http://www.artslantstreet.com/articles/show/2834
http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&id=1333&Itemid=90
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ART-AND-SCIENCE-Supernatural-Nature-s-many-2553832.php
http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/freak-nature-111-minna-gallery/1749