Lisie S. Orjuela
Lisie S. Orjuela is a lyrical, poetic abstract oil painter concerned with stillness, vulnerability and intimacy.
Anchored in attentive observation and felt experience she delves into different facets of inner experience through her artwork. In her current practice she carves a sense of quiet presence out of organic shapes, suggested rhythms, and muted colors.
Orjuela has held recent solo exhibitions at Brightworks Gallery (Bridgeport, CT), The Rye Arts Center (Rye, NY), Moira Fitzsimmons Art Gallery (Hamden, CT), and Gallery 263 (Cambridge, MA). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including in MAPSpace (Port Chester, NY), Five Points Arts (Torrington, CT), the Hudson Valley MOCA (Peekskill, NY), the Fitchburg Art Museum (Fitchburg, MA), and the Mattatuck Museum (Waterbury, CT). Her studio is in Port Chester, NY.
Artist Statement
Careful noticing is my companion and ally. I am interested in how a barely seen image, in the peripheral outskirts of vision, can evoke stillness, tenderness, and intimacy. The paintings carve a sense of quiet out of organic shapes, suggested rhythms, and muted oil colors. The drawings distill a moment within the brevity of a mark, an inquiring edge of charcoal, and traces of oil pastels on white paper. A dragged line or fleshy blob of peach leans towards spatial landscape or figuration.
Inside a world of cacophonous noise, the work claims a space of openness, listening, and vulnerability. It holds an invitation to pause long enough to suspend thoughts, to notice the tender, quiet, subtle perceptions of this moment. The work is in a wordless conversation about embodied presence, attentive seeing, beauty, sensuality, inner worlds, and the poetry of silence.