Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt
Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt, M.F.A., School of Visual Arts, NYC; B.A., magna cum laude, Art Department Honors, Queens College/CUNY. Awarded six national Artist-in-Residence scholarships, she is also the recipient of recent Public Arts grants and support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Exhibitions include the NYC Armory Show and recent solo exhibitions at Waterworks Art Center/Museum, NC; Karpeles Museum, NY; Morris Graves Museum, CA; Delaplaine Art Center, MD; Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, PA; Judy Black Memorial Gallery, CT; and a yearlong exhibit at Central Piedmont College, Charlotte, NC. Additional venues include Chesapeake Art Center, MD; Oxford Art Center, PA; and GoggleWorks Art Center, Reading, PA.
SCHOOL LUNCH is published in the Northeast issue of New American Painting, juried by Amy Sherald. The series has also been published in the University of Baltimore’s journal Welter (Spring 2024) and in the January 2025 issue of The Pasticheur, Dickinson College, PA.
Weinblatt digitally exhibited SL20 in Times Square, NYC, and has participated in over 100 group exhibitions, including Arkell Museum, NY; Albany Airport, NY; Katonah Museum, NY; Mint Museum, NC; Masur Museum, LA; Eric Sloane Museum, CT; Columbia/Barnard University, NYC; Manhattanville College, NY; Karpeles Museum, NY; Hunter Museum of Art, TN; Attleboro Museum, MA; Monmouth Museum, NJ; Arnot Museum, NY; and Morris Museum, NJ. She was awarded “Best in Show” by Claire Davies, Assistant Curator, Modern & Contemporary Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, in Flinn Gallery’s Inner Visions.
Weinblatt exhibited in the Bendheim Exhibition in Greenwich, CT, juried by Ramsey Kolber of the Guggenheim Museum, NY (May–June 2024). She had two solo exhibitions in April 2025 at the Woodbury Library, CT, and will exhibit at the Cuneen-Hackett Art Center, NY (September–October 2025).
Lisa has recently exhibited in six museum exhibitions, including the Leonardo Museum, Salt Lake City, UT; Long Island Museum; Edward Hopper House Museum; a commissioned work at the Putnam History Museum; and is currently exhibiting at the Southeast Museum, Brewster, NY. She exhibited at Hill-Stead Museum, CT (2025), and is currently on view at the Long Island Museum and Monmouth Museum. Additional recent exhibitions include Wayne Art Center, PA (Thrive: Beyond Surviving); Taber Gallery, Holyoke Community College, MA; Limner Gallery, NY (Great American Nudes); and Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD.
Artist Statement
I am a figurative painter whose imagery is informed through direct observation, memory, and personal experience. SCHOOL LUNCH is a visual essay of contemporary student life, created by observational drawing on-site in real educational settings. The paintings in this series present images concerning the nature and passions of human relationships. Current sociocultural issues and their emotional attitudes are explored in the shared experience of school lunch.
SCHOOL LUNCH is generated from drawing in lunchrooms and on campuses of high schools and colleges. Each individual in my paintings, drawn in the moment, is an actual person. The drawings are the genesis of my paintings. The drawings are quick ten- to fifteen-minute graphite and pastel pencil likenesses. My compositions reflect the emotional atmosphere and my observations of the environment. My process involves drawing my compositions to scale, layering drawing over drawing again on the canvas before I paint.
I have exhibited in many college galleries. As part of some of my college exhibitions, I am invited on campus as a Resident/Visiting Artist. This opportunity allows access to a wide scope of activities to record.
My goal is to create humanistic awareness in a framework that is universally recognized. SCHOOL LUNCH underlines perceptions that affirm cultural identity, bringing together ideas that espouse contemporary social, gender, and political concerns while encouraging a belief in the quality of the human spirit.
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