Lisa Nelson Raabe
Lisa Nelson Raabe is a collage artist who creates an emotional sense of place by using pigments, metal filings, glass, bits of nature and thread in combination with acrylic mediums to transform color and texture.
Thai Kozo, Kinwashi and Unryu papers are pliable, highly absorbent and responsive to both fluid media and dye processes. Some pieces start with an eco dying process in which the paper is treated with a mordant and the tannins in leaves and spent flowers dye the paper. Rusted metal and bronze filings from the sculpture studio floor change from browns to blues with the addition of salt, ammonia and acrylic mediums. Thread imports geometric consistency against the spontaneous surface changes from the dye materials. Additional layers of paper obscure and reveal. The result is a transformation of material to image that transcends it’s original nature.
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Current works exhibited are investigations, questions and answers in search of a balance between the everyday and the substantive esoteric. They offer an internal world of presence, seen and felt through a density of physical materials and structured line. As Thomas Merton is quoted, “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Lisa Nelson Raabe has worked as an artist, art therapist and yoga therapist, delving into the relationships between our bodies, stored emotion, thoughts and memories. As a long time textile artist, much of Lisa’s work has to do repetitive forms and processes, stitch by stitch, moment by moment, the creation of pliable planes and experiments in material studies.
Lisa lives with her husband, poet and writer Burton Raabe and their cat Zorba.
Tickled Pink, pigment, debris, thread , acrylic, paper mounted on panel, 36″ x 48″, 2021
Tickled Pink
Best of Both Worlds, pigment, fabric, thread , acrylic, paper mounted on panel, 36″ x 48″, 2021
Best of Both Worlds
Silver Lining, bronze filings, thread , acrylic, paper mounted on panel, 36″ X 61″, 2021
Silver Lining
Benefit of the Doubt, bronze filings, eggshell thread , acrylic, eco-dyed paper mounted on panel, 24″ X 36″, 2021
Benefit of the Doubt
Test of Time, pigment, fabric, magazines, thread , acrylic, paper mounted on panel, 36″ X 36″, 2021
Test of Time
Call It A Day, bronze filings, thread, acrylic, paper mounted on panel, 24″ X 18″, 2021
Call It A Day
Vajrasatva, thread on eco dyed paper on panel, 24″ X 36″, 2021
Vajrasatva
Dharmachakra, thread on eco dyed paper on panel, 24″ X 36″, 2021
Dharmachakra