Lisa Pilarski is a visual artist who lives and works in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Her formal training as a fine artist extended from youth through her college years at Saint Mary’s of Notre Dame, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2003.
She currently owns, operates and instructs advanced atelier drawing and painting courses at ‘The Art School, Inc’ in Milwaukee, which she cofounded in 2014. Her paintings and sculptures have seen many a cityscape beyond Milwaukee- including Chicago, Minneapolis, Miami, New York, Portland, Montreal and London. Printed reproductions of her art may be found in several publications including New Art International and The Wake Magazine of Minneapolis.
Lisa Pilarski has been teaching visual art and professionally exhibiting her artwork since 2003.
Artist Statement
Focusing primarily on the unseen, unrevered and unspoken, my creative work delves into the connections between the biological principles of the material world and the psychological manifestations which simultaneously stem from and perpetuate those principles.
Planet earth houses a procession of creatures, and its countless remarkable inhabitants continually perform an orderly and chaotic symphony of meaningful absurdities. Which evokes more terror within our human minds, a swim within a dense sea of odious insects or an examination of the beastly hordes which wriggle and writhe within ourselves? My most recent series of work aimed to examine, spotlight and honor the alluringly exquisite creeps who modestly persist beneath the surface of things, and irrefutably contribute far more to the wellbeing of their surroundings than humans do.
My current series of work sets out to examine and visually demonstrate uninvited psychological manifestations, calling attention to that which endures beneath the surface- within the subconscious realm of our human minds.
