Lisa Giordano (Queens, NY, 1992) currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BS from the University of California, Berkeley (2013) and will receive her MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Spring 2026. Lisa has exhibited in one-person and group exhibitions in Mexico City, Tokyo, and New York.
Her paintings explore elements of asceticism (or, voluntary simplicity) through the languages of still life and domestic interior. Small in size, gentle in gesture, and muted in color, the paintings are meant to interrogate what is "enough" in the realm of painting. Giordano summons the images through a repetitive process of addition and erasure, taking a sensitive but rigorous approach to representation where the limits and boundaries of the rendered image are continuously tested. The works are occasionally done in a single sitting, other times over months — the painting is finished when a limit is reached. This dynamic process rejects prescription and formula for an active, alive engagement with the subject.