Lisa Blevens frequently peppers her figurative work to overflowing with brightly colored hearts, bunnies, stars and flowers floating on minimal fields of color. The maximalism of her images gives an early impression of abstraction.
And, yes, you likely saw her drawings featured in the recent film The Shack (they were on the walls of God’s house).
// Lisa’s available work //
recent exhibition history
Into the Brightness: Artists from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth & NIAD // Oakland Museum of California // May 2023
I Dreamt the Sun Was in My Bed Organized By SF State University’s Fall 2022 Exhibition Design Class // NIAD Online Exhibition // December 2022
Making in Color organized by Edwige Charlot // NIAD Online Exhibition // November 2022
I Wanna See All My Friends At Once, organized by Cone Shape Top // NIAD Online Exhibition // August 2022
Feeling Language, organized by Kate Laster // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // October 2022
Saves Nine, organized by Megan Kiskaddon // NIAD Online Exhibition // May 2022
Superbloom, organized by Erin McCluskey Wheeler // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // April 2022
Ripples, organized by Esther Mallouh // UC Hastings Law, San Francisco // March 2022
WIN WIN 10 Silent Auction Preview Exhibition // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // February 2022
Have/Hold // organized by Julia Schwartz NIAD Art Center 2019
Affinity // organized by Tim Buckwalter Museum of Northern California Art Chico 2017
We Can Do It! 2 // Hurwich Library, Alliant University San Francisco 2017
Shapeshifting Superheavies // organized by Jessica Snow NIAD Art Center 2017
Creature Feature // organized by John Casey NIAD Art Center 2017
The Table Show // NIAD Art Center 2016
Moonbeams And Polka Dots // NIAD Art Center 2015
I <3 You: Valentines From Angela Rogers, Lisa Blevens + Sara Malpass // NIAD Art Center 2015
Ebony + Ivory // organized by Katie Johnson NIAD Art Center 2014
The Wild Ones// Women’s Cancer Resource Center Oakland 2014
Local Motion, Part One // Hercules Public Library Hercules 2013-14
Undercover Geniuses // organized by Jan Moore Petaluma Art Center Petaluma 2013
A Light That Never Goes Out: Continuing Traditions In Abstraction // NIAD Art Center 2013