Lisa Pressman (Acting)

Lisa Pressman’s artistic career is marked by exploration: testing the boundaries of the expressive potential latent in a variety of mediums, among them oil, encaustic, cold wax, and mixed-media collage. Her work is abstract, conceptually based, and process-driven. Lisa’s artworks feature marks, forms, colors and patterns that are evocative rather than overt. Raised by parents working across creative mediums, Lisa grew up surrounded by building materials and immersed in multiple forms of cultural expression that nurtured her curiosity and aesthetic sensibility from a young age. A trip to Israel at age 12 revealed new worlds filled with an eclectic range of visual imagery, textures and colors that brought new possibilities to this young artist’s practice, bringing with it a visual acuity which served as the defining moment when she realized she was going to become an artist. Lisa received her BA, Fine Art from Douglass College from Rutgers University, with an emphasis...Read More