Lisa Bernstein is a Washington, DC-based artist who paints in oil and water colors. She is a member of the Capitol Hill Art League, Maryland Federation of Art, American Women Artists, and District of Columbia Arts Center, and shows regularly at exhibitions and events in Washington, Maryland, and Virginia. Lisa has studied at L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France; Washington Studio School and Smithsonian Associates in Washington, DC; and The Art League in Alexandria, VA. She has taken workshops with artists Trisha Adams, Maggie Siner, Robert Liberace, and Ingrid Christensen.

Her style is impressionistic, combining representational and abstract elements. Influences include painters such as French Impressionist Berthe Morisot, Dutch Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh, and German Expressionist Gabriele Münter. Contemporary influences include Carolyn Anderson, Bato Dugarzhapov, and Michele Usibelli. Lisa chooses subjects ranging from flowers and still life to figures, landscapes, and cityscapes to reflect, to interpret, and to document her community and the people, animals, and places loved by her friends and family.

Lisa’s paintings have been exhibited at the Foundry Gallery, Hill Center, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop Gallery, and Frame of Mine Gallery in Washington, DC; Compass Gallery in Kensington, MD; Harmony Hall in Ft. Washington, MD; Torpedo Factory Arts Center in Alexandria, VA; Art at the Mill, Millwood, VA; and at Lost City Books and Duplex Diner as part of the Adams Morgan ADMO Art Walk organized by the DC Arts Center and the Adams Morgan Partnership Business Improvement District. Her artwork was included in the “Up in the Air” Mural, a Washington, DC, Ward 5 Environmental Justice Artivist Fellowship project for clean air and healthier spaces for all. Lisa also donated paintings for the “Imagine Hope” art project at the Center for Hope building in Baltimore, Maryland’s permanent exhibit of artwork for client families and children who have suffered trauma.