Lisa Shinault (aka LiShinault) creates story-like works of grace and somber beauty. She paints small to large-scale works across a variety of media that include mostly feminine figures and animals. Iconic imagery and stylized naïve art are major influences. "Dressing Room" is her most recent series which is made up of rearrangeable paintings with multiple ways in which to be viewed, much like large paper dolls. For more detailed information about my newest works, please also visit my other website at https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/lisa-shinault .
Lisa Shinault
Artist Bio
Artist Lisa Shinault is an Atlanta-based, multidisciplinary painter. She often uses a portmanteau of her name, LiShinault, to represent her artist alter ego. Her primary work involves large scale multi-piece paintings, showcasing imaginary feminine figures often combined with birds and other animals to create a sublime, surreal twist. Her most recent work explores her fascination with rearrangement and adornment, depicting rearrangeable figures on shaped wood panels. She works in a variety of media, creating mixed media painted works on canvas with yarn and burlap. She also works with ceramic tile, mosaic, and reverse glass painted collage.
She earned a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and has lived in and exhibited primarily in Georgia. Her work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions at Swan Coach House Gallery, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, 378 Gallery, and Mint Gallery. She is a Hambidge Center Artist Residency Fellow and has received grants supporting her work from The Judith Alexander Foundation and The Atlanta Contemporary Nexus Fund. Her work is held both public and privately, including in the collections of King and Spalding LLP; The Ossabaw Island Foundation; Art news outlet, ArtsATL writer and art critic, Jerry Cullum; Film editing studio, Guillotine Post singer-songwriter Chan Marshall aka Cat Power; La Fonda Latina (Kirkwood, Atlanta); and Puddles Pity Party & Company.
On occasion, she designs scenery for, and assists renowned photographer Chris Verene with his 'Self Esteem Salon exhibits including Fay Gold Gallery, and New York based Gramercy Contemporary Art Fair.
Lisa lives in Decatur, GA., and maintains a studio at Little Tree Studios in Avondale Estates, GA as well as a home studio. Appointments can be requested by email with Lisa to see her work in person: [email protected]
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Words about LiShinault artwork themes:
"A mannequin model job in a small town women’s clothing store overlooking a parking lot swayed my interest in painting mostly nature scenes to instead, the adorned human figure with removed or added parts. I edit painted figures on canvas by cutting selected areas out to sew together with other elements into new juxtapositions.
The freedom to cut apart and put together has evolved into a new series of work called "Dressing Room" which is inspired by paper dolls using wood panel as a base for near life size figures instead of paper. I create interactive outfits for the figure on a main panel. By way of a hidden hook, each outfit adorns the base figure and also exhibits apart as a separate artwork.
The outfits mostly take the form of a dress, but others are more of a costume resembling birdlike symbolic creatures that transform the figure to expose a spiritual alter ego from nature." - LiShinault
See "Salt" from the "Dressing Room" series in action at this link by pressing the red highlighted title, or go to this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGXFg69rKxw
In addition, the rearrangeable element I have been working with has crossed over to other works that feature ducks such as the two-in-one painting on shaped wood panel entitled "Lovely Duck Silver Lake" which can be seen in action at this link (press the title in red highlight):
"Lovely Duck Silver Lake"
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Other info links:
This 2021 LiShinault interview is from Atlanta station WABE 90.1 FM "Speaking of the Arts" on radio show "City Lights":
https://www.wabe.org/speaking-of-the-arts-with-lishinault/?fbclid=IwAR0ZDoyW9WWlKFP5HmastVv1a28VaCua0GrJotEwga91JeKkk1KKJEJ336o
This interview by Carey Hall of Action Artwork Rental provides some great insight to LiShinault's working process: http://actionartworkrental.com/blogs/artistsinaction/95368582-artists-in-action-lishinault
Lisa Shinault CV
678-596-1710 | [email protected] | lishinault.com | Decatur, GA | @lishinault
Education
1989 BFA Painting/Art History, Savannah College of Art & Design, (SCAD) Savannah, GA
1986 Enterprise State Junior College, Enterprise, AL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Revolution Ball, Railroad Earth Gallery and Performance Space, Atlanta, GA.
2026 Little Tree Group Show, Little Tree Art Studios, Avondale Estates, GA.
2025 Shine; Echo Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA.
EmpowerHer; Emma Darnell Aviation Museum and Conference Center, Atlanta, GA
2024 Hambidge Art Auction & Masquerade, Atrium of Uptown Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Echoes, Surrealism’s Influence, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, GA (curator A.P. Faust)
The Summer Invitational; Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA (curators Maria Bruckman & Jacob O’Kelley
Bountiful Earth, Avondale Arts Alliance, Avondale, GA (curator Isadora Pennington)
Neighbors & Friends, Avondale Arts Alliance, Avondale, GA (curator Isadora Pennington)
2023 Assembly Point, Ongoing Conversation Group, Roswell Visual Arts Center, Roswell, GA (curated by Soude Dadras)
2022 Wintry Mix, 378 Gallery, Atlanta, GA (curators Tom Zarrilli & Lisa Shinault)
2021 Employee of the Month, 378 Gallery, Atlanta, GA
MINT’s Gallery 2 selected studio artists group show; MINT Gallery Atlanta, GA
2020 The Summer Invitational; Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA (curators Michelle Laxalt & Karen Tauches)
Positive-Art in the Time of COVID, 378 Gallery, Atlanta, GA
From the Artist’s Collection, MINT Atlanta’s Summer Invitational, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Freddy & Charlie’s Most Sensational Eclectic Arts & Weirdos Party, South River Art Studios; Atlanta, GA
2019 Night at the Museum, live auction for
Animalia, 378 Gallery, Atlanta, GA. (curator Tom Zarrilli)
2018 Little Things, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA (curator Marianne Lambert)
2016 Ashley Benton Studio Gallery at TULA, Atlanta, GA
2015 Eye Level, Atlanta Critique Group, by South Cobb Arts Alliance at Mable Arts Center, Mableton, GA
2014 Visual Conversations, Atlanta Critique Group, Central Library Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2013 Athena’s Palettes, Vargas & Harbin Gallery, Norcross, GA
2012 Multiple Personalities, Atlanta Critique Group, Blue Mark Studios, Atlanta, GA
2011 Chrysalis, Atlanta Critique Group, Blue Mark Studios, Atlanta, GA
In the Mix: A Baker’s Dozen, by Fulton County Arts Council, Abernathy Arts Center, Sandy Springs, GA
2004 (In) Appropriate?, Momus Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2002 Local Figures, The Temple Gallery, Decatur, GA
2001 Atlanta Artists: Gallery Selections, Suntrust Plaza Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The Political Body, Bluemilk Paradigm Art Space, Atlanta, GA
1997 The Famous Artists Show, IVAC, Atlanta, GA
1997 Pith, Peachtree Lofts Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1996 The November Show, Hastings Seed Factory, Atlanta, GA (curator Dan Cameron)
1990 Trinity Spotlight on Georgia Artists, Colony Square Hotel, Atlanta, GA
Solo + Two Person Shows
2018 APARTOGETHER with Phoebe A Maze, Galeria Regina, Decatur, GA
2013 The DeFoors Center, Atlanta, GA
2011 Alizarin with Katherine Mialkowski, Blue Mark Studios, Atlanta, GA
2010 Guillotine Post; Atlanta, GA
Hula Day, Sister Louisa’s Ping Pong Emporium, Telephone Factory, Atlanta, GA
Seven Stages, Atlanta, GA
2007 Broad Strokes, The Alcove Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006 The Alcove Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Guillotine Post, Atlanta, GA
2003 Raw Gallery with John Garrison; Atlanta, GA
2002 The Atlantic Star, Decatur, GA
2001 Patchworked Females, with Mariana Depetris, Raymond Lawrence Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2000 The Lovely Locks Show, Studio Biba; Atlanta GA
1999 Paperdolls / Difficult Women, Gallery Zebu, Atlanta, GA
1999 Tongue In Groove, Atlanta, GA (curated by Chris Warner)
Awards and Residencies
2020 Judith Alexander Foundation Relief Fund for GA Visual Artists Individual Grant Award
2019 The Hambidge Center, Artist Residency, Rabun Gap, GA
1989 Excellence in Painting Award, Savannah College of Art & Design, (SCAD), Savannah, GA
1987-89 National Dean’s List, Savannah College of Art & Design, (SCAD),Savannah, GA
1985 Drama Performing Arts Scholarship; Enterprise State Junior College, Enterprise, AL
Selected Bibliography
2021 Artist interview feature “Speaking of the Arts” on WABE 90.1 FM radio show “City Lights”, July 15.
2020 Elysian Magazine e-edition Arts & Culture Issue
2019 Cullum, Jerry, “Cullum's Notebook: New Faces, New Places, and the Return of Familiar Faces”, ArtsATL, June 5.
2018 Creative Loafing. featured in “Holiday Gift Guide”, Dec Issue Vol. 47. NO 17.
Guthrie, Lily, “APARTOGETHER Fuses Perspectives”, Creative Loafing, July 7.
Cullum, Jerry, “Cullum's Notebook: “Outliers and Other Outsiders”, ArtsATL
2008 Alumni Communications, (SCAD publication), artwork featured, February Vol. 4.
2007 Cullum, Jerry, “Cartoon Style Takes Odd Twists”, Access Atlanta, June 14.
2006 Cullum, Jerry, “Easy Thoughts on Being Difficult”, Access Atlanta, August.
2003 Feaster, Felicia, “For Art’s Sake: Here Kitty Kitty”, Creative Loafing, April 30.
2002 “Two Worth Seeking Out in Decatur”, Atlanta Journal Constitution, June 7.
Joiner, Dorothy, “Southeast Reviews”, Art Papers, September.
2001 Cullum, Jerry, “Patchworked Metaphors of the Feminine”, Atlanta Journal Constitution, June 1.
Dilonardo, M.J., “Where to Go, What to Do”, Atlanta Magazine.
Cauley, H.M., “Lovely Locks Show highlights”, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 4.
2000 “Camera Club” Cheri Goes to the Gypsy Fortune Teller, picture series collaboration with Guggenheim Fellow
photographer, Chris Verene, Reflex Modern Art Gallery, Amsterdam.
1997 Cullum, Jerry, Atlanta Journal-Constitution,“Diverse Paths to the Heart of Matters”, March 28.
Byrd, Cathy, “Spaced Out”, Creative Loafing
1996 Fox, Catherine, “November Arrives in Knick of Time”, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 5.
Special Projects and Related Work History
2022 Co-Curator for 378 Gallery Wintry Mix shows 2020-22; Atlanta, GA
2019 Night at the Museum live auction of art; Art collaboration with the 4th grade classes benefitting “The Museum
School of Avondale”, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
Scenic artist for Storyteller/ Musician, Bill Taft, (1996 - 2019), Atlanta, GA
2017 “Stacks Squares Mural Project Round 1”, Outdoor mural in Cabbagetown neighborhood, Atlanta, GA
2005 “The Self Esteem Salon Series”, Scenic Artist for photographer Chris Verene in New York, NY and Atlanta, GA
gallery venues including Gramercy Contemporary Art Fair and Fay Gold Gallery, 1998-2005.
2004 Designer / Painter (2003-04), Raymond Goins Studio, Chamblee, GA
2003 LookBook Catalog Creator/ Visual Merchandiser/ Showroom Assistant/ Receptionist, 1998-2003, Max Studio,
AmericasMart Apparel Mart, Atlanta, GA
1998 “My Lover the Matador” Cover art for virtual musical release of Cabbagetown / Atlanta based band, “Smoke”.
Reverse Glass Collage Artist, Fabulous Things Ltd., 1995-1998, Atlanta, GA
1997 Instructor of “Ceramic Tile Painting”, Atlanta College of Art Continuing Education Program, 1996-97, Atlanta, GA
1995 Painter/ Furniture Refurbisher; J.C. Johnson & Associates, 1994-95, Atlanta, GA
Visual Merchandiser, Saks Fifth Ave at Phipps Plaza, 1994-95, Atlanta, GA
1994 Scenic Artist; Alliance Theater, Atlanta, GA
1993 Botanical Mural Painter/ Designer; Custom Tile Design,1989-93, Vinings, GA
1984 Mannequin Model/ Visual Merchandiser; Leon’s, Enterprise, AL
Selected Collections and Commissions
King and Spalding; Atlanta, GA
Jerry Cullum (ARTSATL writer); Atlanta, GA
Clay Harper (restaurateur); Atlanta, GA
Guillotine Post (Video Editing Suites); Atlanta, GA
Chan Marshall aka Cat Power (indie singer songwriter)
Ossabaw Island Foundation; Ossabaw Island, GA
Puddles Pity Party & Co. (singer, performer)