"The Familiar Wilderness" will open at Baton Rouge Gallery on Sunday, April 28, 2013 "The Familiar Wilderness" April 28 - May 30, 2013 Opening recept

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"The Familiar Wilderness" will open at Baton Rouge Gallery on Sunday, April 28, 2013

"The Familiar Wilderness" April 28 - May 30, 2013 Opening reception May 1, 2013 from 7-9 pm. Baton Rouge Gallery, Center for Contemporary Art • 1515 Dalrymple Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808 • 225.383.1470

Lisa Qualls has created a body of work called "The Familiar Wilderness" with the freshness of relived childhood memories. She portrays the world with awe and innocence, and we recall the excitement of discovering our world. The subjects, as promised by the title of the show, are familiar and include still life, portrait, and landscape. The drawing and painterly treatments while classically skilled are used to reinterpret classical styles through both Modernist and Postmodernist eyes.

Above: "Double Ferris Wheel" 8 x 16" Watercolor, colored pencil, acrylic on paper
Below: "Cup and Spoon" 8 x 8" Oil on paper

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My drawing "Exquisite Perfumes fill the air: will be on view at the Masur Museum in Monroe, LA until June 8, 2013.

Masur Museum
1400 South Grand Street
Monroe, LA 71202

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My husband, Matt Scheiner, and I will be opening Gallery Jatad at 1517 Blodgett St near Crawford, in the heart of Museum Park in Houston, TX. We will be exhibiting authentic African Art objects from jewelry to architectural elements and contemporary works on paper. We hope to have our soft opening the first week of May. Our first scheduled show will open Saturday, May 25, 2013 with the monoprints of Joelle Verstraeten and African objects from Mali, including important pieces from the Dogon and Bamana peoples.

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I started work on a series about personal stories from war last year. I am currently working on a video titled "Victim, Aggressor" which is a stop motion animated video created from my drawings and paintings of people who lived during times of war.
This video shows faces of people during various wars from the American Civil War to the present. There are few indicators of the role these people played: victim, aggressor, witness, resistor. In the video the faces blend together unidentified. They all simply look like people.

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I will be teaching drawing, painting and mixed-media classes and workshops at Gallery Jatad.
Schedule to be announced soon. I will post the schedule regularly on my blog.

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