Lisa Bergant Koi is an abstract painter interested in the physiology and psychology of perception — how we see and how we interpret what we see. Her paintings are layered amalgamations of lines and shapes replicated from fast, abstract drawings she makes of the passing scene as a passenger in a car.

She has amassed hundreds of these drawings and they’ve become her main source material. She searches through them for individual marks that alone are not readily identifiable as elements of the landscape and juxtaposes them anew to form a peculiar or uncertain sense of pictorial space in her paintings. Her use of non-representational color and non-descriptive titles further expand the possibilities for interpretation beyond the realm of landscape into that of our individual psyches.

Lisa’s work has been selected for national exhibitions by jurors from the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Akron Museum of Art, and New Orleans Museum of Art, among others. Her work is held in private collections, the permanent collection of Harper College (at which she had her most recent solo show), as well as the corporate collections of PNC Bank and The Benter Foundation.

To view more work or her CV, please visit Lisa's website.