Awards:
People’s Choice Award 2024, Hardy Gallery, Ephraim, Wisconsin, 61st Annual Wall-to-Wall Juried Exhibit for “Old Growth Owl”
Best of Show 2023, Hardy Gallery, Ephraim, Wisconsin 61st Annual Wall-to-Wall Juried Exhibit for “Young Doe”
Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Fellowship 2017 $10,000 Grant
Exhibitions:
Hardy Gallery, Ephraim, Wisconsin, 62nd Wall to Wall Juried Exhibit 2025
Visual Arts Center Juried Color Show 2025, Punta Gorda, Florida
Anderson Art Center Winter Juried Show 2024,2025, Kenosha, Wisconsin
Ongoing Representation Geneva Lake Art Foundation, Gallery 223, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Starline 4th Fridays Art Event, August 2024, Harvard, Illinois
Teaching Experiences:
Waterford Union High School, Waterford, Wisconsin
Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin
Lakeland College, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Education:
Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI K-12 Art Education
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts 1998
Master’s of Fine Art in Painting and Drawing
Studied under naturalist and painter Tom Uttech
Studied abroad in Florence, Italy
University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Studied under mixed media artist David V. Holmes
Bio
Lisa Dukowitz lives in Wheatland, Wisconsin. Her artwork is deeply rooted in the natural world and is primarily influenced by the remote, rugged shores of the Great Lakes, which she has extensively explored via sea kayak. She earned her MFA in drawing and painting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts. Lisa exhibits regularly at Gallery 223 in Lake Geneva and the Area Artists’ Gallery at the Anderson Art Center in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Artist Statement
My art work is deeply rooted in the natural world and explores themes of memory and place. Remote adventure travel has long been my passion and the concept of waldeinsamkeit (solitude in the forest) is instilled into my spiritual DNA. The work aims to give my experiences in the wild a visual voice.
During my outings, I shoot, paint, and collect objects that inspire me. Once back in my studio, I find the composition, sketching imagery without altering the found object until the composition reveals itself. When finally working on the piece, the marks are intentionally sparse to preserve the integrity of the found object.
“Old Growth Owl” was drawn on a large piece of birch bark found on the north side of Rock Island, Wisconsin. I chose to paint the deep magnetic stare of a Great Horned Owl encountered during the same trip. This piece is the latest addition to a series I am currently working through called “relic drawings” all of which are drawn on found objects.
Plein air painting keeps my observation and drawing skills sharp and I have long used photography to record my travels.