Kinsey/DesForges is pleased to introduce Los Angeles-based artist Lisa Solberg with an exhibition of new paintings in her first solo show in L.A. The show will open with an artist's reception on Saturday, October 11th, from 6-9pm, and continue through November 8th, 2008.

Lisa Solberg cultivates a vibrant dialogue between the enigmatic creatures of a dream world and the freestyle gestures of a street artist. Drawing on surrealist techniques, her jazz-like improvisations weave vivid colors and dynamic shapes into a subliminal reality that functions beyond conscious awareness. Female forms take on feline heads; men in suits wear lucha libre masks; a turbaned figure hides behind 3D glasses—these are just some of the mysterious characters that emerge amid the haze of Solberg's neon hues and expressionist drips.

As dynamic abstractions collide with figural elements, Solberg exposes concrete truths within a chaotic world. The work is positively “raw and energetic,” as the artist herself points out, and her uncalculated gestures brilliantly invigorate the subliminal reality she creates. Often injecting her paintings with unabashed humor, Solberg creates tongue-in-cheek juxtapositions while poignantly reinterpreting canonical iconographies. Fauvist chromatics materialize into actual "wild beasts," as lions, tigers and wolves play out mythological narratives on her large-scale canvases. Originally from Chicago (b. 1983), Solberg currently lives and works in downtown Los Angeles. She graduated with a BFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2006. She has shown in London, San Francisco, New York, and Chicago, and has displayed murals in Münich. Her work has been featured in the Denver Post, Wassup!, and The Lowdown.