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2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Bio
Alisa H. Workman is a visual artist in Beavercreek, OH who paints “lightly abstract floral works … renderings of bold flowers with rich splashes of color”. A lifelong Ohio resident, she earned a BS in Geology with a concentration in crystallography from Wright State University. After years of flower gardening and creating plantings, mosaics, and other garden installations, Alisa picked up a paintbrush in 2015. She is a self-taught artist who has learned to express her love of flowers and color..
Alisa’s work has been exhibited at The Rifle Gallery, The Contemporary Dayton, The James Cancer Hospital, The Springfield Museum of Art, The Dayton Society of Artists, and other venues and exhibitions throughout Ohio. Her work can be found in collections across the United States and Europe.
Currently she is a preschool art teacher at The Miami Valley School in Dayton, Ohio where she has worked since 1998.
Artist Statement
I dabbled at the edge of the art pool for years … mixed media collages, painted garden pots, colorful tiled garden hardscape installations.
The work that I consider my first completed painting, my frightening leap into the deep end of the pool, is SURVIVE. It was done in 2017, in the first art workshop that I attended. It was begun a year after my mother’s death and my sister’s suicide. It was completed after my husband’s cancer diagnosis.
Life is filled with happiness and sadness. I choose to focus on the sadness and to turn that darkness into something bright and wonderful and happy. Vibrant colors energize and excite. I LOVE color.
Inspired by all that surrounds me, I paint lightly abstract floral works … renderings of bold flowers with rich splashes of color.
