Lisa Dukowitz (°1966, Wisconsin, United States) creates photographs, paintings, and mixed media artworks. As a child she spent a great deal of time exploring and drawing the rugged limestone bluffs and anthropomorphic twisted cedar trees found in Door County’s famed Port de ’Mort of Lake Michigan. A spiritual connection formed in her imagination between land, body and soul that still exists today.
During graduate school at the Peck School of the Arts in Milwaukee, Lisa studied under landscape painter Tom Uttech who encouraged her to document the remaining remote places of the world and to paint en plein air. She studied human and animal anatomy through the drawings of renaissance artists Leonado da Vinci and Michelangelo while studying aboard in Florence Italy. She has been deeply influenced by the work and methods of photographer Ansel Adams and painterTom Thomson.
After earning her MFA, Lisa worked in a variety of art roles including graphic designer, professional picture framer, portrait photographer, and retouch artist before becoming a professional educator. Her art teaching experience is wide in scope, having taught kindergarten through the college level. Her paintings and photographs have been shown in a wide variety of public art events, juried regional exhibitions and Midwest travel publications. She currently teaches art for Waterford Union High School. Whenever possible, Lisa travels to remote places via sea kayak or backpack to shoot.
Lisa Dukowitz’s current work not only seeks to provide evidence of the divine beauty of the natural world, but also to provoke viewers to see themselves within the heavenly landscapes and to question our traditional dogmas that separate our origins and hereafters from the evolution of the planet. Human-like forms are often secretly hidden in her landscapes; similar to those in her childhood drawings of the twisty trees.
During graduate school at the Peck School of the Arts in Milwaukee, Lisa studied under landscape painter Tom Uttech who encouraged her to document the remaining remote places of the world and to paint en plein air. She studied human and animal anatomy through the drawings of renaissance artists Leonado da Vinci and Michelangelo while studying aboard in Florence Italy. She has been deeply influenced by the work and methods of photographer Ansel Adams and painterTom Thomson.
After earning her MFA, Lisa worked in a variety of art roles including graphic designer, professional picture framer, portrait photographer, and retouch artist before becoming a professional educator. Her art teaching experience is wide in scope, having taught kindergarten through the college level. Her paintings and photographs have been shown in a wide variety of public art events, juried regional exhibitions and Midwest travel publications. She currently teaches art for Waterford Union High School. Whenever possible, Lisa travels to remote places via sea kayak or backpack to shoot.
Lisa Dukowitz’s current work not only seeks to provide evidence of the divine beauty of the natural world, but also to provoke viewers to see themselves within the heavenly landscapes and to question our traditional dogmas that separate our origins and hereafters from the evolution of the planet. Human-like forms are often secretly hidden in her landscapes; similar to those in her childhood drawings of the twisty trees.
