Lisa Carney

My desire to create is fueled by our beautiful planet and its phenomena. Art and music are the vehicles I use to express the creative energies that reside in me. These past few years, abstract painting has been my way to communicate everything I absorb.

Working by intuition, relying on instinct, my process involves developing several paintings at a time, allowing me to explore many ideas that I divide by themes in series. I paint mostly with acrylic on canvas, naturally making unconscious decisions about what colors to use and how I will blend them to my satisfaction.

Because I am a very much grounded person close to nature, one can find in my work, textures that resemble roots, splashes that are reminiscent of wild flowered fields and colored scrapes that suggest mineral veins. 

Bio:

Lisa Carney is a multidisciplinary artist who was raised in an artistic family on the Gaspe Peninsula, in Quebec, Canada. She earned a degree in Visual Arts from the University of Quebec in Montreal, and has since developed technical prowess in many different artistic mediums. 

The artist has participated in several one-person and group exhibitions throughout Canada and the United States including those at the Musée des beaux-arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire; Galerie La Seigneurie in the Vanier Cultural Centre, Châteauguay, Quebec; SOPA Fine Arts, Kelowna, British Columbia; and Artists Space, New York, NY.

Her work is included in many private and corporate collections world-wide including the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Thérèse-de Blainville. It is on display in galleries in Quebec, Canada, in addition to those in New Jersey and Washington in the U.S. It has been accepted by Ugallery, a curated online gallery based in San Francisco, CA. 

Carney and her art work has been featured in numerous publications and books including appearing on the first page of Courrier Laval.

She has curated exhibitions through La Galerie Fleur-De-Lys, which she operated in Ste-Anne-Des-Plaines for three years. She is a member of several distinguished arts organizations such as Conseil de la Culture des Laurentides and RAAV (Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec).

Education:

University Laval, Sainte-Foy, Quebec
Unversite du Quebec a Montreal (UQUAM), Montreal, Quebec

Awards & Distinctions:

Honourable mention, Festival de Peinture a Mascouche, Quebec, 2009
Honourable mention, Festival de Peinture a Mascouche, Quebec, 2008
3rd Prise, Festival de Peinture a Mascouche, Quebec, 2007
Coup de Cœur Prise, Festival de Peinture a Mascouche, Quebec, 2006
 

Exhibitions:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 GeoHorizon, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Hilaire, Maison Paul-Émile Borduas, St-Hilaire, Quebec Curator : Marie-Andrée Leclerc, CEO
Panorama Geologique, Centre Culturel Vanier, Châteauguay, Quebec, 
Curator : Stéphane Beauregard
2012 GeoHorizon, Bibliothèque Gabrielle-Roy, Fabreville, Laval, Quebec
2010 Salle Sœur Louis, La Maison de la Culture de Waterloo, Waterloo, Quebec

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014 Artbomb Art Marketplace, E.K. Voland Art Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Curator : Holly Friesen
2014 Espace Fresque, Val-David Church, Val-David, Quebec
2013 12 X 12 Days of Christmas Holyday Exhibition of smalls, Koyman Galleries, Ottawa, Ontario
The 5th Annual Square Foot Show, Paula White Diamond Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Espace Fresque, Val-David Church, Val-David, Quebec
U8 EVENT, SOPA Fine Arts, Kelowna, British Columbia, Curator : Deborah Boileau, Gallery Director
2009-13 Miniature Art Extravaganza IV, Ghost Gallery, Seatle, Washington
2012 The 4th Annual Square Foot Show, Paula White Diamond Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Small gifts for Christmas, Centre d’exposition de Repentigny, Repentigny, Quebec, Curator : François Renaud
Festival International Montreal en Arts (FIMA), Montreal, Quebec, Jury : Yves Louis-Seize, Jean Fortin, Micah Lockhart, Claire Crombez
Office of Charmaine Borg, NPD Member of Parliament, Terrebone, Quebec
Espace Fresque, Val-David Church, Val-David, Quebec
U8 EVENT, SOPA Fine Arts, Kelowna, British Columbia, Curator : Deborah Boileau, Gallery Director
2006-12 Visual art exhibition, Jean-Guy-Cardinal Center, Sainte-Anne-Des-Plaines, Quebec
2009-12 Office of Daniel Ratthé Member for Blainville, Blainville, Quebec

Artistic Influences:

Abstract Expressionism
Minimalism 
Modernism
Colorfield Painting

Tags:

minimal art, color field painting, contemporary abstract art, modern art, abstract landscape, abstract impressionism