“School Lunch”
Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt
February 5 – 28, 2014
Reception: Friday, February 7, 2014 5pm – 7pm
Lisa is a figurative painter whose imagery is informed through personal experience, imagination and direct observation. The paintings comprising SCHOOL LUNCH, present images concerning the nature of relationships . Her goal is to create humanistic awareness in a framework which is universally recognized. The SCHOOL LUNCH series is a pictorial essay of contemporary student life, in real educational settings. Contemporary cross-cultural issues and their emotional attitudes are explored in the shared experience of school lunch. SCHOOL LUNCH was generated from direct observation, drawing on location, afternoons in the lunchrooms of several NYC High Schools. SCHOOL LUNCH has expanded to include university and college campuses. SCHOOL LUNCH has been exhibited at numerous universities and museums throughout the New York metropolitan area; as well as, with The Woodstock Museum, NY, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, The Dishman Museum, Lamar University, TX and the Provincetown Art Museum in New England. Images from both SCHOOL LUNCH and the MAN/WOMAN series have often exhibited together, as their themes are aligned, (i.e. the passions of relationships). Dennis Wepman, Curator of the Karpeles Museum”, NY states “Weinblatt incorporates a dynamic narrative in her paintings, implicit of the energy and tension of personal interactions…” SCHOOL LUNCH underlines perceptions which affirm cultural identity, brings together ideas espousing contemporary concerns and encourages a belief in the quality of human spirit. My objectives include continuing to forge a bridge connecting a multi-cultural society; ( as Queens County is reported by the New York Times, to be the most ethnically diverse county in the USA ), with achievement; through cooperation and tolerance provided by a positive visual model.