Lisa Nankivil (born 1958, Minneapolis, Minn.) is an American painter and printmaker best known for her non-representational striped-format oil paintings. Nankivil works in the modernist tradition of European and American abstraction. Her paintings, while formally of a modern idiom, feature color schemes, brushwork, and techniques that are based on long-established painterly traditions.
According to art historian William Peterson, the striped form...
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Lisa Nankivil (born 1958, Minneapolis, Minn.) is an American painter and printmaker best known for her non-representational striped-format oil paintings. Nankivil works in the modernist tradition of European and American abstraction. Her paintings, while formally of a modern idiom, feature color schemes, brushwork, and techniques that are based on long-established painterly traditions.
According to art historian William Peterson, the striped format of Nankivil’s paintings evolved while she was concentrating on certain figure-ground relationships in her work. “I was searching for ways to make the background as essential as the image,” she says. “I began to explore qualities such as motion, ascendance, and hierarchy through painted stripes, and eventually the image fell away leaving me to navigate the implications of the vertical and the horizontal by painting only the orientations with stripes.” A phrase in the art writings of John Berger—“Home is where the vertical meets the...
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