Painters Table Dec 7, 2013 – via Artweek.LA Dec 2, 2013. Republished in In the Land of Entropic Beauty ( monograph published by CB1 Gallery) 

 

An essay on  Lisa Adams’ recent melancholic paintings. These paintings do not  represent melancholy in obvious themes and iconography they  exhale it through enigmas – created by combining different emotions and different painting styles of abstraction and semi-representation… Adams’ forlorn landscapes, condense voluminous feeling through imaginative metaphors based on real things she has seen which, paradoxically, convey both hopelessness and hopefulness – the contradictory feelings that create melancholy.

Links:

http://painters-table.com/link/artweekla/lisa-adams-aesthetic-dimension-melancholy

http://artweek.la/issue/december-2-2013/article/lisa-adams-the-aesthetic-dimension-of-melancholy