Little Rock, Arkansas
Artists don’t choose to be artists, they have to be artists.
Though Lisa often enjoys painting, pleasure is not the motivation of her work. She is compelled to recreate and obligated to document. When some witness a burst of outrage, Krannichfeld sees a broad and sweeping swath of red. Art is how she understands and interprets the world, and ultimately, how she finds her place within it.
Lisa's figurative work interprets the world in all its terrible splendor through the complexity and depth of the human form. The energy of the gestures reflects the depth of emotion while the expressionistic use of the line chronicles the fluid and unpredictable nature of the human experience. Her technique demands a delicate balance of grace and fervor. And, like many great works, her art is about process rather than product. For this reason, the pieces are designed to give the illusion of being in flux. They are more of a mirror reflecting back on the moments of creation than a static and opaque canvas dressed in the colors of finality.
Since early in her childhood, her artistic predisposition often manifested itself. But it wasn’t until a sudden tragedy in her early adolescence that her fate as an artist was cemented. It is only through the harrowing that beauty can be truly appreciated and emulated. Thus is the nature of human emotion and thus is the plight of an artist.
Her work is saturated with unbridled and, at times, painful honesty that is most apparent in the subject matter of unclothed figures.
Here is her work. Here is her life.
They are naked truths.
Lisa Kranichfeld received degrees in both studio art and biology from Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO. She has exhibited her work in myriad galleries in Colorado and Arkansas and has been featured in a Winsor & Newton magazine as an art scholarship recipient. Now, she teaches art full time at E-STEM middle school in Little Rock.
