I have been painting/drawing since 1969. My formative years were spent in Florida working with sculptor Duane Hansen, with early placement of my work with Allan Stone's Gallery in New York City, and my drawing purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. While in Florida I received a number of fellowships from the State, and had my first one-woman museum show. While in Maryland, I have collaborated on a number of large-scale tile murals in the mid-Atlantic region. I have also been avidly pursuing a new scale and political voice in my drawings. I am currently working on graphite drawings that are on a large scale, approximately 4'x8'. The images are on the same scale as the viewer. From the beginning I have always been drawn to architectural elements. My love of urban architecture continues to sustain my work.

My work, which is, at its basis, architectural in both the traditional sense, but also in what I would describe as an internal sense. Space grounds feeling in memory. I create images of space, more than images of time. Angular perspectives of rooms and halls glimpsed from other inner regions of architecture have always been my essential visual language. Being in Washington, D.C. and seeing the current abysmal administration has politicized and radicalized my work. My work continues my inner struggle, exploring shadows/shapes of humanity moving through space and its interiors and exteriors. I am always looking at the impermanence of man (versus the permanence of what he builds) in my struggle with my brief existence on this planet. I try to show by erasures and shadows the fleeting nature of humanity. The medium of graphite on paper allows me to give visual voice to my interior space. Graphite is like painting to me, it is fluid and flexible in nature it responds to my touch.

I use dreamlike and geometric qualities. I use incidental intrusion of objects to ground sentiment. I emphasize the mechanics of intentionality in seeing. Human seeing focuses and wills, narrows and directs itself toward certain aspects/ scenarios of the world. In this sense, the cut-off spaces in my paintings are poetically ambiguous in a temporal sense.

These devices are compositional or structural, but structure is image. I use organic forms like chessmen of the unconscious, advance guards who have staked a claim for the poet's imperative against time, dread, and dissolution. The elements also reflect the magical thinking of today's society.

I use architectural elements to emphasize the middle space between subjectivity and the world that surrounds it. The issue here, and in all of my drawings/paintings is contingency. The unity of objectivity and subjectivity is not a fusion but a dialogue of sorts between these two poles of the real. Architectural images point to the isolation of the subject from the world and at the same time stress the plurality of vision which a seemingly single world can provide a seemingly single subject.

born: 1949, Miami, Florida

education

University of Miami, MFA, 1973
University of South Florida, BA, 1971
Miami Dade College, AA, 1969

selected awards/honors

Best in Show, Making the Cut, Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery, Nassau Community College,NY 2006
Honorable Mention, 7th Annual All Media Exhibition, Touchstone Gallery, Washington,DC 2005
Florida Council for the Arts Grant in Painting, Florida Fellowship 1983-84
Roadworks Barnett Bank of Jacksonville, Commission for Billboard to travel State of Florida 1982-83

selected publications

Art and Politics do mix at PVCC, Lifestyles,The Daily Progress, Sec B, Page1,October 19, 2006
America the beautiful?, The Hook, Art Feaure by Laura Parsons, 2006
Ins and outs of one-woman show, The Dailty Progress, Art World by Ruth Latter, Sec D, Page1, 2006

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Lisa Parker Hyatt Ehrlich Recent Work: Dickenson Building, Piedmont Community College,VA 2006
Lisa Parker Hyatt Ehrlich: Light, Recent Drawings: Barry University, Miami Shores, FL 1999
Lisa Hyatt Paintings, Allan Stone Gallery, New York City,NY 1985
Lisa Hyatt Recent Paintings, Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 1983

selected group shows

Truth,Justice, and the American Way, Dickenson Building, North Gallery, Piedmont Community College,VA 2006
Making the Cut, Firehouse Plaza Gallery: Nassau Community College, GArden City,NY 2006
7th Annual All Media Exhibition: Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC 2005
28th Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Mills Pond House Gallery, STACARTS, St. James, NY 2003