Voices of Experience - Lisa Grossman

Rivering

It’s been too many years since we first interviewed Lisa Grossman for The Artist’s Road. See: Voices of Experience - Lisa Grossman. On the occasion of her 2023 exhibition, Rivering at Haw Contemporary in Kansas City, we wanted to update her interview with a few images from her new work. The exhibition paintings reflect a love affair with the Kansas River, informed by science and history and personal explorations done by kayak, airplane and trail, resulting in an exquisite collection of oil and acrylic paintings. Also included in the show are painted, laser-cut wood panels created from LiDAR map imagery elegantly revealing the river’s historic pathways.

The artist wrote: “This exhibition includes not only contemporary views of the Kaw but also work that imagines the ancient and evolving Kansas River Valley. These include imagery of floodplain scrolls—scars left behind from old river channels—the ancestral Kaw Lake, and the evidence of ancient life along the Kaw.”

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