Lisa Horlander
Texas
Lisa Horlander is a mixed-media artist who's work explores intervals in space and time.
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Lisa Horlander is a mixed-media artist whose work explores visual negative space and transitions in time. Horlander is a Studio Artist and Founder of InBetween Studios in Tyler, TX. She graduated with her BFA in studio arts in 2017, her MA in 2023, and her MFA in 2025 at The University of Texas at Tyler. She was part of Cohort 2 with the Cedars Union in Dallas, where she was a Studio Artist and part of their Curatorial Committee. She participated in the Summer Residency Program at New York University in 2018 with mentors artist Valerie Hegarty, Noel W. Anderson, and Heather Bhandari. Horlander has exhibited her work spanning the US most recently with Ro2 Art in Dallas, The Other Art Fair Dallas, the Janette Kennedy Gallery in Dallas, and The Tyler Museum of Art.
Statement
My work explores intervals in space and time. I portray visual contours between tree branches and roots, while using ephemeral colors from transitions in time, in the imagery I capture on paper using an array of drawing, printmaking, and painting techniques. I manipulate those surfaces to create polymorphic forms shaped to mimic the visual negative spaces I reference in my 2D imagery. Because of the kinetic energy activated by the air as viewers pass by, these objects hold a conversation between each other and the viewer, about our interaction both positively and negatively, with the ecosystems we live in, and their fleeting beauty.