Lisa Dawn Gold

Lisa Dawn Gold was born in Merion, Pennsylvania in 1959. She currently lives and works in Telluride, Colorado and New York City. She is a contemporary artist who specializes in solid graphite sculpture, painting and conceptual art. Her sculptures tend to be representations of objects, while her paintings and drawings are far more abstract.

She believes that for a piece of artwork to be “alive,” it has to come out of the “richness of the creative process,” and if she knows in advance exactly what she’s doing, then she’s not in the true creative process. When it comes to her sculptures, her process involves much more patience. She first conjures up an idea that is distilled in the “intellectual mind;” these ideas are then brought into the physical realm when she believes they are ready to be “born” into the world. Once this happens, she then casts them solid in whatever material they are made—solid graphite, metal, pure pigment pastel, watercolor, or crayons.

When it comes to her drawings and paintings, she states that there is a much more “intuitive process” where she taps into her unconscious state. This process is very fluid, where images are continually evolving and open to continuous insight and growth.

She is represented by a number of different galleries in the U.S. and is included in a solo exhibition in New York City as well as an exhibition in Telluride, Colorado.