LISA REED-PRESTON

Lisa Reed Preston is a visual disruptor, using abstraction and exploring technology to create immersive and interactive experiences that merge the physical and the digital world. Lisa explores opportunities and obstacles through diverse mediums including mixed media painting and augmented & virtual reality to create the future of arts.

Contemplating the Horizon

Lisa Reed Preston is a self-taught artist who embraces the beauty of abstraction and interprets it through her fine art paintings, augmented reality paintings, and virtual reality art experiences. Growing up a military child and oldest of 4, Lisa spent much of her youth moving and adapting to new environments. At the age of 11, she won her first art contest. For years, Lisa lost focus on her childhood passion as the challenges and practicality of life replaced youthful whimsy. Upon moving to the Nashville area,

$3000 she rediscovered her passion for creativity and became part of the Plowhaus Artist CoOp. Most recently, Lisa participated in Nashville Arts and Business Council’s Periscope 2022 class, showed her augmented reality fine art paintings at Artclectic! Nashville, TN, and was featured on the popular Nashville billboard as the Artist of the Week.

Lisa’s varied life experiences continued as an audio engineer, graphic designer, STEM and robotics teacher, and data analyst provide her with an enthusiasm for problem solving and experimentation. For the last 18 years, Lisa has resided with her husband in Bellevue, TN.

Contemplating the Horizon was one of my first large abstract explorations. I was particularly interested in contrast and allowing myself to be intuitive and less intentional with each stroke. This painting helped me open my color palette as well as gave me the feeling of freedom I needed to move forward. It was in essence my contemplation of all that would be possible in abstract painting. This painting was recently recognized as Best In Show at the Camelback Gallery Abstracts with Red 2023 exhibit.