Stefanelli’s complex arabesques move between a delicate (musical) sense of beauty and a brawny physicality. Each work begins with a mark and a momentary plunder of the abyss--- why paint when the world is already brimming with plenitude and wonder? And each moment of nada is followed by the artist’s full-on bodily engagement in the creation of new orchestrations of movement. Stefanelli’s work belongs to numerous collections such as The United States Department of State, the Department of the Interior, The Rose Art Museum and The Albright-Knox Museum.
(left) SUSAN JAMISON, Forget Me Not egg tempera on panel 36 x 36 inches LISA STEFANELLI, Foolish Blood series oil on panel 24 x 28 inches (each)