Lisa Krannichfeld
Lisa Krannichfeld is an award-winning, multimedia figurative artist from Little Rock, Arkansas. Her work challenges traditional representations of women with a maximalist approach through the combination of seemingly incompatible materials. Her work has been exhibited around the US, parts of Europe, Australia, and Asia, and belongs to prominent collections including the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, The Historic Arkansas Museum, Hot Springs National Park, The Bennett Collection, and The Argenta Mural Project. Her work has received numerous juried art awards, the most recent being the 2024 Arkansas Committee for the National Museum of Women in the Arts Artist Award and the 2023 Women United Art Prize in Painting and Drawing.
Can you elaborate on your maximalist approach to art making and aesthetics?
I am a lover of materials and am always on the search for a new interesting one to incorporate into my work. As a result, a lot of my studio time is dedicated to figuring out how to make all the materials I love work well together. I see it as a metaphor for all the identities that women hold throughout their lives, and how they may struggle to make them all fit together at times. I love mixing things such as varying patterns, colour palettes, and techniques that visually clash but also play off of each other in a piece. I think subconsciously my maximalist approach also stems from my multiracial background and the feeling of never really fitting into one niche but, rather, into several.
Where do you find inspiration when you are not making art?
In the few spare moments that I have these days, I actually prefer to get lost in fiction books, so I can’t say I am reading much currently about art. However, I recently entered the world of mural painting so I am trying to soak up as much knowledge and inspiration as I can relating to murals. Instagram is a great source for this, as well as travelling to other cities to tour their street art. I am also interested in writing and illustrating a children’s book and look forward to studying that through books and classes. My four-year-old son and I make weekly trips to the library for new books to read. He gets a bedtime story and I get ideas for my own book one day.
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Lisa is featured on the Autumn 2024 Edition of Art Seen magazine, published August 2024.