Photography
1991-now
Mixed Media
2024-now
About
Lisa Hartjen
Creative Practice
Lisa Hartjen is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice begins in quiet conversation… between body and place, mark and meaning. Working in photography, ceramics, and painting, she moves fluidly between art and contemplative study, tracing the subtle dialogue between inner and outer knowing. Her work is grounded in a belief that creativity is a living exchange, a way of paying attention in a rapidly shifting world.
Artistic Roots
Rooted in artistic lineages spanning the Bauhaus, Dada, Fluxus, and Minimalism, Hartjen’s process uses meditative mark-making to record what can’t be spoken. Water–its flow, memory, and connective force–appears as a recurring motif, linking body, to environment.
Training
With a BFA in Photography from RISD and an MA in Art Education from MICA, along with years spent teaching K–12 art and collaborating on film crews, she brings a hybrid sensibility that bridges science and spirit, local and global, digital and physical. Lisa studied ceramics with Jim Dugan and Matthew Hyleck and continues to study with painters Louise Fletcher and Nicholas Wilton.
An Invitation
Through her evolving body of work, Lisa Hartjen invites viewers into an intimate, pre-verbal conversation about attention, embodiment, and the creative acts that shape how we see and inhabit the world.
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mixed media
Grandpa’s Breezeway
design mock-up
Amagansett’s Keep
mixed media
Lackawaxen Spring
mixed media
Amagansett’s Keep
wood fired ceramics
Small Pitcher
mixed media
Undertow
Testimonials
What People Are Saying
Lisa understands the nature of artistic endeavor at a profoundly deep level and since she also possesses a rare combination of tremendous interpersonal skills and empathic listening abilities.
Stacey
Lisa’s tender guidance not only strengthens my work, but also my confidence that my stories are worth sharing. In this noisy world, Lisa will hold space for you—space that leaves you feeling both seen and heard.
Jenny
Lisa is thoughtful, perceptive, and articulate; with an artist’s holistic comprehension of situations and individuals. She is also unusually tactful, intuitive and yet practical.
Sandra