Lisa Fromartz’s art is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum, as well as private, public, and corporate collections. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, including the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York; the Westfries Museum, Netherlands; Walter Randel Gallery, New York City; the San Diego Art Institute; de Achterstraat, Netherlands; Galerie arting, Cologne; Galerie J. J. Donguy, Paris; and Galerie Het Getal O in Amsterdam. Recently featured in an article in METAL magazine, she has hosted studio visits for MoMA's Junior Associates and Christie’s Education, and has been featured in art/REAL, EuropeNow, and Sotheby’s Institute of Art.
Fromartz takes commercial materials, found objects, and printed images, all culturally coded by their original, intended contexts, and recombines them in a kind of visual mash-up, a remix of unintended juxtapositions that assigns new value and meaning. Her process of selecting and sifting these images and objects is her way of being mindful in the face of an expanding universe of information aimed at shaping our thoughts and emotions. All of her work is an expression of her process of constantly questioning her relationship to the visual images and content she encounters daily. Paintings, sculpture assemblages, photos of light charged sculpture fragments, mixed media, and collage based prints are all aspects of her work. One medium leads into and feeds another in her desire to reflect both the complexity and the connectedness of everything in a way that is visually powerful enough to engage the viewer while subverting ordinary perceptions.
Lisa Fromartz lives and works in New York City.