MORGANTOWN — Arts Mon will open its new exhibition of paintings by Lisa Bergant Koi from 6-8 p.m. Friday. The exhibition and reception are free.
Lisa Bergant Koi’s abstract work “depicts indeterminate spaces developed from her primary source material: Drawings she makes of the highway landscape as a passenger in a car.” As a result of “painting randomly selected lines and shapes …” combined with intentionally selected lines and shapes, these records of the landscape become less identifiable.
“In fact, the greater the feeling of ambiguity and peculiarity they add to the composition, the better,” Bergant Koi said.
In other words, landscape fragments become influenced by her interest in “the physiology and psychology of visual perception — how we see and how we interpret what we see.”
These strategies of composition, selection, color and non-suggestive titles and individual perception mean that the viewer is free to interpret her work from his or her own set of experiences.
Bergant Koi is a member of Associated artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Society of Artists, and the Greater Pittsburgh Art Council. Her work is in the collections of PNC Corporate Offices, Pittsburgh, and in the Benter Foundation, also located in Pittsburgh. She has sown in numerous shows in the Pittsburgh area and elsewhere nationally.
The exhibition will run through Aug. 31. Hours are from 10 a.m.-4 p.m Tuesday-Friday.
