METAPHORICAL NATURE - A solo exhibit of oil paintings by Liron Sissman

“Every painting is a self portrait. I do not paint flowers.” Says Liron who uses form, color, and often texture to convey emotions. The artist uses flowers as visual metaphors conveying many themes. Having no faces of their own, flowers in Liron’s work represent an image that viewers of diverse backgrounds can identify with. Overcoming superficial dissimilarities, they serve as portraits of universal appeal.

Why Flowers? The fragility of flowers, coupled with their ephemeral beauty, intriguing delicacy, and striking color, attract sensitivity and amplify the drama. The fleeting existence of flowers triggers urgency.

Liron’s landscape paintings are dominated by water seen through trees. Using water as a symbol of life and serenity, these trees may either represent a barrier or they may yield to define a path. Most often they partially obscure, connoting a hurdle as they provide a glimpse. Liron’s landscapes, like her flowers, are not merely intended to reflect nature but rather to project an inner reflection, a metaphorical journey.

“I admire the intensity of emotions found in the works of the Expressionists. Like them, I too mix my soul with my paints. However, I strive to be subtle in my expression of the intense. "

"The plants [in Liron's work] become anthropomorphic lovers"
Joseph Jacobs, Curator of American Art at the Newark Museum

About Liron:

Liron’s oil paintings have been featured in over 40 shows in New York City and throughout the Northeast, won multiple awards and are widely collected by corporate collectors and by individuals in the US and abroad. Liron is listed in Who’s Who in America and in Who’s Who in Visual Art.