After graduating from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design I lived and worked in the Twin Cities, when, in 2003 I began to divide my time between the U.S. and Mexico. A fascination with Mexican textiles led me, beginning in 2006, to work with several weavers in Teotitlan del Valle, a village outside of Oaxaca, Mexico. I continue to produce textiles, but the focus of my work is painting and collage. I currently maintain a studio in Stockholm, Wisconsin, and Oaxaca, Mexico.
Lisa Cicotte’s Lyrical Abstractions
Lisa Cicotte (b. 1954) has been painting for over forty years. Her poetic and lyrical paintings express deeply personal and psychological concerns while being firmly in place within the tradition of American abstract painting.
Her mastery of color, organic and abstract forms, references to landscape or figurative art, or the more architectural constructive elements, are offered as allusions to both art history as well as our own living environment.
The work presented here displays Lisa Cicotte’s mature period, away from experimentation and beholding to her lifelong commitment to an art that is both expressive of her inner thought and connected to our common humanity.
Lisa divides her time between her studio in Oaxaca, Mexico and her studio in Stockholm, Wisconsin.
Selected Exhibitions
2026 Impermanence, M.E.T. Projects Gallery, Red Wing, MN
2019 Permanent exhibition of textiles, Salon de la Fama del Beisbol Mexicano, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
2008 Studio Oaxaca, Textiles, Las Bugambilias, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
2000 Painters, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN
1999 Como un Sueno, Photography Exhibition, La Olla, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
1996 In Italia, Photography Exhibition, University of Minnesota, School of Architecture
1990 Landscape, Jon Oulman Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1988 Solo, Victory Envelope Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
1986 Overlay: Process and Memory, First Bank, Minneapolis, MN
Education
1972 Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
1976 BFA, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Awards
2000 McKnight Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN
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