Join Suite Five Salon for a holiday celebration of its one-year anniversary and the opening of an exhibition of paintings by San Francisco artist Lisa Lightman, on view December 6, 2007 through January 31, 2008. The party and artist reception will be held on Thursday, December 6, from 7:00 to 10:00pm.

Lisa Lightman is a San Francisco-based artist whose intricate, mixed-media collages and paintings employ a deeply personal and singular language that reflects her ongoing engagement with the subconscious. Lightman refers to her constructions as “states of mind” and they are the result on an ongoing, iterative process that involves a building up and breaking down of the surface. The processes of drawing, painting, rubbing, scratching, layering, and excavating are clearly evident and speak not only to Lightman’s extensive mining of her interior self but also her responses to external political and cultural stimuli.

A range of influences from the multilayered paintings of Howard Hodgkins to the rhythmic, calligraphic works of Cy Twombly manifest themselves in these highly emotive works. However, the symbology, sophisticated palette, and pop surrealist mark-making manifest Lightman’s own internal investigations. For more information about Lisa Lightman and her work, visit www.lisalightman.com.