By Lisa Houck
Located in Wellesley, MA
Lisa Houck is a highly established artist from Boston, recently re-located to Maine, with a very large following devoted to her exceptional paintings, watercolors, mosaics and prints reminiscent of Folk Art, Matisse and Aborigine art. Houck is widely admired and recognized for a gorgeous sense of color and a sensibility both playful and serious that is uniquely her own.
This is one of her 3 most recent large format bird prints in various shades of blue and aqua in a series which now consists of a total of 10 related prints. They are outstanding installed individually or as groups. Houck's highly sophisticated and complex sense of pattern and design is delightfully whimsical, as well as extraordinarily compelling for its knowledge of so many artistic forms which the artist is miraculously able to reference and incorporate, while maintaining a style so distinctively recognizable as her own.
Lisa Houck
"Flittering and Fluttering"
2023
Linoleum Block Print
Edition 10
35.25 x 23.25 Inches
This print is not framed.
Lisa Houck has an outstanding reputation for not only her work as a printmaker but for achievements in painting, watercolor, mosaic and textiles as well. She has executed many large permanent public art commissions for interior and exterior sites in Boston and nationwide including ambitious murals for Dana Farber, The Children's Hospital, Frieda Garcia Park and numerous libraries, playgrounds and other public buildings. Her works have been featured in many museum and gallery exhibitions and are included in a multitude of public and private collections.
Artist's Statement:
"I work in watercolor, oil on wood, ceramics, mosaics and etching. Each medium allows me to invent new ways to express my view of nature through color and pattern. My artwork has been exhibited widely, and is in numerous public and private collections, including The Boston Athenaeum, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, Fidelity Investments, four libraries in Broward County Florida, Hale and Dorr, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."
LISA HOUCK
Education and Professional Affiliations:
Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA: M.F.A. 1989.
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI: B.F.A. 1975.
Boston Printmakers
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA 2017, 2021
Cambridge Arts Council, Gallery 344, “A Long Walk with No Destination”, Cambridge, MA 2016 Patricia Carega Gallery: “White Line Woodcuts,” Center Sandwich, NH 2014
Rivers School, Weston, MA 2008
Bentley College: “All About the Square,” Waltham, MA 2003.
Barton-Ryan Gallery: “Improbable Botanicals and Landscapes,” Boston, MA 2000.
Randall Beck Gallery: Boston, MA 1993, 1991.
Barbara Singer Fine Art: Cambridge, MA 1991.
Coyote Gallery: Cambridge, MA 1989.
Tufts University: “MFA Thesis Exhibition,” Cohen Arts Center, Medford, MA 1988.
Modestino Gallery: Cambridge, MA 1987, 1986.
New England School of Art and Design: Boston, MA 1986.
Mott House: “The Comet and Other Phenomena,” Washington, DC 1986.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Cove Street Arts, “Menagerie a Trois”, Portland, ME, 2022
Fuller Craft Museum: “Mosaics Today”, Brockton, MA 2022
Turtle Gallery, “Summer Show”, Deer Isle, ME 2022
Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA “impressions” 2019 and 2020
Boston Athenaeum, New England on Paper, Boston, MA 2017
Cotuit Center for the Arts: Marking Time: 70 Years of the Boston Printmakers, Cotuit, MA 2017 Arsenal Center for the Arts, Big Prints, Watertown, MA 2016
FPAC Gallery, Fort Point Channel, “Mosaic Muse”, Boston, MA 2016
Art of Mosaic: Piecing it Together, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA 2013
Highfield Hall, National Mosaic Exhibit on Cape Cod, Falmouth, MA, 2011
Fancy Plants: Bentley University, 2010
Contemporary Mosaics: Attleboro Arts Museum, 2010
Boston Children’s Museum: “I See Trees,” 2009.
Somerville Museum: “Art of Mosaic,” 2009.
Milton Academy: “Design/Build,” 2009.
Danforth Museum: Members Show, 2007
Boston Printmakers: North American Print Biennial, 2005.
Peabody Essex Museum: “In Nature’s Company,” Salem, MA 2004.
Cambridge Art Association: “Hot Colors,” (Best in Show Award), Cambridge, MA 2002. Tufts University: “Alumni Exhibition,” Aidekman Gallery, Medford, MA 2001.
Acacia Gallery: Gloucester, MA 2000.
Wiggin Gallery: “Women in Watercolor,” Boston Public Library, Boston, MA 2000.
New Art Center: “Lasting Impressions: Looking at the Land,” Newton, MA 1997. Bernard Toale Gallery: “The Pet Show,” Boston, MA 1996.
Albers Gallery: Memphis, TN 1994, 1992,1991.
Pritam & Eames: East Hampton, NY 1992.
Boston Center for the Arts: Boston, MA 1989.
DeCordova Museum: “Explorations in Handmade Paper,” Lincoln, MA 1989.
Fuller Museum of Art: “RISD Alumni in Boston,” Brockton, MA 1989.
lisa houck
Selected Collections:
The Boston Company
The Boston Public Library Brigham and Women’s Hospital Brunnier Museum, Ames, IA Coopers & Lybrand
Fidelity Investments
Fogg Art Museum
Goodwin Procter
Harvard Business School Harvard Community Health Plan
Grants/Projects:
Herman Miller
Lahey Clinic
Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts Mutual Corporation Montgomery Watson Harza Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Neiman Marcus
New England Medical Center
State Street Bank and Trust
Valley Hospital, NJ
Wrapped a Radiology room with art at Boston Children’s Hospital 2019. Project consultant: Betty Bothereau, L’Attirude Gallery Boston
“City Square with Reflecting Pool,” 6’ X 6’ mosaic for Iron Street Park in Boston. Located on the corner of A Street and Iron Street in Boston, commissioned for this new park in Boston by a private client in 2014.
Children’s Hospital, Waltham, MA: eleven-panel, oil-on-wood painting for the lobby, 2005.
Grant from Massachusetts Cultural Council, 2005. For a ceramics program in the public schools, sponsored by the Dedham Cultural Council.
John Hancock Financial Services: Frieda Garcia Park. Commission to create two mosaic murals incorporating children’s art from the community, 2004. Murals are 8’ X 10’ and 8’ x 22’.
Broward County Cultural Affairs Office/Public Art Department, Florida: Public Art Commission to create paintings and printed materials for four libraries in Broward County, 2003.
Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Jimmy Fund Clinic, Boston, MA: eight panel mosaic for the reception area. Architect: Miller, Dyer, Spears, 2003.
Massachusetts Port Authority, Logan International Airport, Terminal E, Boston, MA: Six digital reproductions of paintings. Project Coordinator: Urban Arts Institute, 2001.
”The Rare Tropical Cod,” part of the Cavalcade of Cod, a school of 5’5” fiberglass fish sculptures which were displayed throughout the city of Boston in the fall of 2000. Sponsored by Boston’s B2K Committee.
Poster and button and display banners for First Night Boston, 1998.
Grant from the City of Cambridge to create murals for the Cambridge Senior Center, 1995. Administered by the Cambridge Arts Council.
Fellowship in the Visual Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, 1994. Administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts.
Grant from Arts on the Line, Cambridge, MA for temporary art in the subway including a 36-foot painting for the Kendall Square subway station, Cambridge, MA 1988.
Grant from the Cambridge Arts Council for a mural for the Cambridge River Festival, installed in Inman Square, 1987.
Poster for the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1987.
education and professional affiliations
Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA: M.F.A. 1989. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI: B.F.A. 1975.
Boston Printmakers
New England Mosaic Society
Publications:
Maine Gallery...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
