Nancy Toomey Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Lisa Bartleson titled Hand Work on view from April 2 to May 16, 2026. The public is invited to meet artist Lisa Bartleson at the gallery on Saturday, April 4, from 5pm to 7pm.
The exhibition Hand Work at Nancy Toomey Fine Art poignantly declares artist Lisa Bartleson’s new method where she embraces the tension between intimacy, corporeality, and material. Bartleson explores each focal point and its intersections, welcoming the inseparable and often uneasy relations found there. The crossroads of Hand Work’s aesthetics centers the feminine, Bartleson’s historic conceptual framing, yet expands towards abandon with plump, imperfect forms that are poised to resist the order and containment of the resin, expressing both power and vulnerability under the resin’s sharpening opacity. This tension is amplified by the artist's sublime color palette, deep saturated pigments on organic cotton that at once suggest rootedness and blooming, surety and potential. Inside this duality, the viewer experiences the intensity of the form and color, which encourages the sensation of touch without contact.
1275 Minnesota St America/New_York publicOpening Reception: Lisa Bartleson: Hand Work
Nancy Toomey Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Lisa Bartleson titled Hand Work on view from April 2 to May 16, 2026. The public is invited to meet artist Lisa Bartleson at the gallery on Saturday, April 4, from 5pm to 7pm.
The exhibition Hand Work at Nancy Toomey Fine Art poignantly declares artist Lisa Bartleson’s new method where she embraces the tension between intimacy, corporeality, and material. Bartleson explores each focal point and its intersections, welcoming the inseparable and often uneasy relations found there. The crossroads of Hand Work’s aesthetics centers the feminine, Bartleson’s historic conceptual framing, yet expands towards abandon with plump, imperfect forms that are poised to resist the order and containment of the resin, expressing both power and vulnerability under the resin’s sharpening opacity. This tension is amplified by the artist's sublime color palette, deep saturated pigments on organic cotton that at once suggest rootedness and blooming, surety and potential. Inside this duality, the viewer experiences the intensity of the form and color, which encourages the sensation of touch without contact.