I paint places that touch my heart. The sandy beaches and ocean marshes of Plum Island are among my sirens. I am also drawn to the small Italian hilltop town of Roccanova, where my paternal grandfather was born. Here, ancestral ghosts call to me from its ancient streets and the surrounding countryside.
After studying fine arts at Cornell University, Lisa received a BA in art history in 1978 from Barnard College, Columbia University, and a MA in art history in 1981 from the University of Chicago. Although her passion has been the making of art, her livelihood was the care and interpretation of it.
After a career working in art museums, she retired in 2018 to again focus on her own art-making which I had put on “the back burner” for decades. Her museum experience included the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, where she was Associate Director of the Research Center, the Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) in NYC, where she was Manager of Collections and Exhibitions, and most recently, the Princeton University Art Museum, where she oversaw the University’s campus art collections. Lisa paints mainly using watercolors as her medium.