Forging Connections: Environmental Justice
Aerodyne Research is excited to host local artist Lisa Goren as part of our Forging Connections: Environmental Justice seminar series. Lisa will visit the Aerodyne Research home office in Billerica, MA to present her talk,
“From Pole to Pole – Chasing Ice.”
Thursday, July 11th – 3:00 to 4:00 PM
Ever since Lisa read about the Heroic Age in her high school years (Team Shackleton!), she has been chasing “big ice”. After her trip to Antarctica in 1997, she knew she wanted to paint frozen landscapes. While she began as an explorer, the concurrent climate crisis changed the urgency of her visits to glaciers and ice. Bringing this magnificent fragility to an audience that may not otherwise get to see it is a goal of her work.
We look forward to Lisa sharing her perspective on the changing world, how it affects her work and her hopes for the future.
If you would like to attend Lisa’s talk in person, please email us at seminars@aerodyne.com.
To join Lisa’s talk online, scan the code.
Lisa Goren was born in California and raised in NYC. And yet she has dreamed of Polar landscapes since she was in her teens. Her first trip took her to Antarctica where she was inspired and captivated by the landscape. Later travels to Iceland, Alaska, and the High Arctic increased her love for the Polar Regions. Her watercolors show an unfamiliar landscape in a new light. By using vibrant colors and taking risks with different surfaces, she makes the viewer reevaluate their understanding of both these landscapes and their beliefs in the potential of the medium. Her works create questions about the nature of abstraction and our planet as many of her pieces are representations of unfamiliar, threatened terrains.
Lisa’s work can be found in personal collections worldwide, from Australia to Iceland, and the United States. Her place on the 2013 Arctic Circle Residency was chronicled in an article she wrote for the New York Times (http://nyti.ms/1PAO5mr) and led her to her next phase of her Polar work. She had two pieces in “Gaia – Les femmes et l’ecologie” in Paris to coincide with the COP21 Climate talks. Recently, her Google Talk (http://bit.ly/lisagorengoogle) gave her a larger platform to discuss her travels, art, and the Polar regions.
Lisa has been working out of Boston, Massachusetts for the past 25 years and is Vice-President of the National Association of Women Artists (Mass. Chapter). During the Pandemic, she has been working on smaller paintings of Animals Taking Over during the Quarantine as well as portraits of health care workers (chosen to be in The Best Art Created by Washington Post Readers During the Pandemic by Washington Post).
LISA GOREN