Rondo Opening Reception

The Josephy Center for Arts and Culture is honored to have its first Printing Press Artist-in-Residency this summer from July 17-August 14, 2023. Artist Lisa Mackie won the residency through the Inspiration Plus, a nonprofit organization from Sag Harbor, NY that promotes creativity through arts and sciences with focus on printmaking.  The award was given in 2020 at the height of COVID-19, now three-years later, the Josephy Center can host the residency.

The Exhibit run will from July 27 – August 11, both in the main gallery and in the loft.

Lisa Mackie is a visual artist known for storytelling in provocative color, euphoric imagery and materials that teeter on the seemingly familiar and unfamiliar. Through her wide array of abstract and figurative compositions, Mackie evokes fable-like tales that incite imagination and exploration for her viewers. Within all of Mackie’s works is a compilation of picture fragments that she has photographed, drawn, written, and remembered. The images deal with a delicate balance between cognition, process, and memory. Through her own intuitive explanation, she meticulously traces, scrutinizes, and hones the evolution of each image, resulting in a type of infinity.

In her exhibition “Rondo” a term in reference to a musical form that contains a principal theme which alternates with one or more contrasting themes, Mackie explores the process of visual memory, evolving imagery, and continuous motion through her journey in India in 1999.