About: Artist Lisa Tribo

Auburn University 1971-1975
Memphis College of Art 1978-1983

Although Lisa was a painting major at Memphis College of Art, she has worked extensively in fabric and textiles, including surface design, weaving, quilting, sculpture and garment construction. Lisa worked with the contemporary dance company, Project:Motion for seven years designing and making costumes and producing graphics for their advertisement and programs. She now works primarily on painting and drawing, but is still fascinated with the world of fabric and textiles.

My work is more meditation than expression. Whether I have arranged the fabric to mimic a landscape or figure, or simply clipped an intriguing segment from a larger photo. the process becomes one of losing myself in the folds, the pleats, the shadows and light which are already there and the color, which I invent. I work very close to the canvas, then step back to see an image revealed. Amazing!

Why fabric? It is the element in so many works of art that can reveal or conceal, that adds color and mood and richness, motion or serenity. Items of clothing are iconographic. Their detail and textures, for me, are mysterious and beautiful and soothing.

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