Studio reflection in window at night.
About Lisa Matera
Artist Statement
I’m always preoccupied and distracted, looking at things. Seeing, staring, thinking, daydreaming. Painting helps me understand the world around me and helps me understand myself.
I like the dualities that happen…All at once, painting is about the formal/practical/technical challenges and ethereal/soulful impulses.
My images are straightforward yet are imbued (for me) with symbolism, tangled up with all sorts of influences, memories, sounds, layers of experiences, hidden things. I’ll think I know what path I’m on, and something else happens, taking me to another place. That act of painting, getting lost and getting found (and getting lost again), is compelling and addictive.
I hope viewers may find their own unique connection, meaning, or pleasure when looking at my work.
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American artist, b. 1971, Lisa Matera attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as a painting major and received her BFA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Lisa taught Fine Art for 5 years at The Burlington County Institute of Technology. She's certified through the State of New Jersey as a K-12 art teacher, teaches privately, and teaches at the Perkins Center of the Arts in Moorestown, NJ.
She lives and works in New Jersey, outside of Center City, Philadelphia, with her family.
Exhibitions:
2024 March 28-May 26th Annual Juried Exhibition, Powell Lane Art Gallery. Collingswood, NJ
2024 March 3-24th Art of the Flower Exhibition. Philadelphia Sketch Club. Philadelphia, PA
2024 February MoorArts Gala, Moorestown, NJ
2023 September-October Perkins Center for the Arts Annual Juried Exhibition
2023 May-June Perkins Center for the Arts Faculty & Member Exhibition
2022 June 25. Moorestown Music Collective’s first public show: John Train Duo performing & Lisa Matera solo exhibit. Venue: Moorestown Theatre Company
2022 January MoorArts Gala Art Exhibit
2022 May-June Perkins Center of the Arts Faculty Exhibition. Moorestown, NJ
2020 November Perkins Center for the Arts Annual Juried Exhibition Junk Drawer (Self-Portrait)
2020 July Perkins Center for the Arts Three Women Exhibition, Lisa Matera, Katherine Stank, & Michelle Marcus
2020 March Philadelphia Sketch Club The Art of the Flower, Juried Exhibit *Honorable Mention for “American Painting”
2020 May Perkins Center for the Arts Faculty & Members Online Virtual Exhibition
2019 October 5- January 12, 2020 Cedarburg Art Museum Night Owls Exhibition, Juried Show Cedarburg, Wisconsin
2019 October 6-November 26 Perkins Center for the Arts Annual Juried Show. (**Second Place Prize.)
2019 May 4-June Perkins Center for the Arts Members and Faculty Exhibition (** Award of Excellence for “Sink, 2”)
2019 January 26 MoorArts Gala Moorestown, NJ
2018 October 7-November 25 Perkins Center for the Arts Annual Juried Exhibition Moorestown, NJ
2018 July 12-August 25 Perkins Center for the Arts, TASTEFULLY SOUTH JERSEY EXHIBITION. Collingswood, NJ
2018 June 9-July 5 Holtzman Gallery, 5 Person Group Exhibit. Margate, NJ
2018 April 12-May 12 Beneficial Bank, LISA MATERA PAINTINGS Solo Exhibit. Moorestown, NJ
2017 November Annual Juried Exhibition, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
2015 December -January 2016 Accidental Art Show, Haddonfield, NJ
Media:
Quotidian Magazine. Volume 1, Layers. January 2021
https://thesunpapers.com/2019/05/03/within-the-chaos-of-everyday-life-theres-a-lot-of-beauty/
Youtube:
https://youtu.be/dmxchEX3KL0
Email, call, or message via social media to inquire about lessons, purchases, or commissions:
Lisa Matera
(856) 905-2522
lisamatera@comcast.net
lisa.matera on Instagram