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2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Bio
Lisa Schonberg is a printmaking artist working with a variety of processes including relief, intaglio, monoprinting, screenprinting and cyanotypes. Her subject matter and conceptual ideas are derived from an inquisitive observation of the natural world and the parallels that aspects in nature have with various conditions and stages in human life.
Lisa has an MFA in Printmaking from Kent State University and an BFA from Ohio University. Retired from teaching, her career included teaching in public and private schools, local colleges and participating in artists’ residencies and internships. She has exhibited her work in juried, invitational and solo shows as well as in local, regional and international galleries since 1984. Lisa’s work is included in collections such as the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cuyahoga County Headquarters, MetroHealth/Glick Tower, Summa Health System, Tri-C, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio Arts Council and Grafikwerstatt in Dresden, Germany as well as in various corporate and private collections. She has been a resident artist at Zygote Press in Cleveland since 2007 where she prints and teaches.
Artist Statement
Our natural environment can be a source of peace and mystery. What inspires me most is how nature can be instantly captivating and calming as well as full of excitement and surprises. Utilizing printmaking materials, techniques and the spontaneous development of imagery inherent in the making of monoprints, I channel my observations into printing abstract images related to ideas I have while experiencing and studying nature. Some of my ideas are related to water reflections, wind currents, earth forms, shadows, foliage and other natural ephemera. My abstracted and patterned layers, colors and forms are meant to be a celebration of the beauty and majesty in nature. In addition, I believe that nature and art can have restorative value for the human spirit. It is my goal to make work that is uplifting. I hope to inspire us to contemplate topics beyond our everyday existence as a way of diffusing the drama of the times we live in.