revelatorART: Lisa Marten
about my art business
photo taken by S.Tucker
my artist bio
Abstract Expressionist Artist
I'm an abstract expressionist artist, live painter, performance artist and producer, art minister, and world traveling art missionary.
revelatorART
This is my full-time art business. I create paintings and artwork to sell. I do abstract expressionist concepts in mixed media, commissioned work, interactive art engagements with groups, private one on one abstract expressionist sessions, mural painting.
To view my art website go to: www.revelatorart.wixsite.com/revelatorart
To view my art blog site go to: www.revelatorart.blogspot.com
Live Painting
I paint live as a visual experience for the audience at art events, concerts, and church services. I like to work in collaboration with other artists, musicians, speakers.
VineArts Boise
I minister to artists of all ages, skill levels, backgrounds, to encourage creativity within community through a local art ministry. This has included coordinating/installing/curating a gallery, co-facilitating small group book studies and collaborative art activities, monitoring at community based open studio sessions, live painting during large congregational services, collaborative work on large scale backdrops, and co-planning national arts conferences.
Marten Evergreen
I am a co-founder of a performance art company that incorporates choreographed dance, live painting, music, and story into avant-garde live performances produces for art events and private events.
Reflect Art Conferences
I am part of the planning team with the non-profit 3rd Tribe for bi-annual national art conferences (originally named Creative Church Conference) that aim to gather artists and ministers together to focus on the conversation of creativity as ministry in and out of the church through interactive collaboration with artists, speakers, and performers from around the world.
Traveling Art Minister
I travel around the world connecting cross-culturally through creativity. I have found that art is a language that we all speak and it's a great way to enter the conversation human to human to build community. I utilize art through live painting, small group art activities, collaborative art projects, and creative conversation to get to know people and allow for creative expression.
why i do what i do
I believe art is a language that transcends all language barriers. It's able to get past the walls of cultural differences, age, race, gender, religion, politics, economic standing, education, distance, even time. Creativity is like a conversation. There are conversations going on all the time. Conversations with the artist and the work, with the artist and the Divine, with the artist and nature, with the artist and humankind, with the artist and self. Creativity allows me to come alongside others and enter into the conversations that are already happening. I love listening to conversations. If I'm invited into the conversations this brings about collaboration. Collaboration is an invitation to the sharing of ideas and it's a huge part of building relationship. I believe humankind is a relational people. We need each other. I believe we were created that way by a creative God who is all about relationship with us. And I believe we've been given creativity as a language to relate to each other with. When we connect into the conversation through creativity and allow for collaboration, we are helping to build community together and this fosters relationship. And the walls become invisible between us.
a bit more about how i started
I have formally studied art at Seattle Pacific University and the University of Wisconsin Madison. I have two Bachelors degrees from Northwest University; one in Youth Ministry (Adolescent Social Services) and one in Behavioral Science (Psychology). I began pursuing art full time in 1999 and I started my art business, “revelatorART” in 2001. I have worked with individuals and groups of all ages through art counseling, art ministry, and art instruction. I am nationally and internationally sold and have displayed my paintings in numerous venues (galleries, coffee houses, bookstores, juried shows, state fairs, solo and collaborative art shows) all around the world.
about my art
When painting, I often embed materials like coffee grounds, scraps of writing, and found objects into my work. Sometimes I don't use easels or brushes, instead using a Jackson Pollock-like approach where I paint flat on a table or the floor. I like hovering over my work and I am able to walk all around the canvas to get different perspectives. In painting my mixed media abstracts it gives me the ability to let the paint splatter or drip, going wherever it needs to go.
I've always been very tactile and I love being able to feel the paint as I create.
what i do
*abstract expressionist concepts in mixed media
*commissioned art
*live performance painting
*interactive art engagements with groups
*private abstract expressionist sessions
*mural painting
*world travels to build cross-cultural art communities
photo taken by L.Evergreen
Examples of My Work:
Collaboration Convergence
c. 2016 Lisa Marten
24x30 mixed media on canvas
Original For Sale. Prints Available.
Face The Waves
c. 2014 Lisa Marten
18x24 mixed media on canvas
Orignal Not For Sale. Prints Available.
Unstoppable Love
c. 2016 Lisa Marten
4ftx5ft mixed media on canvas
Original Sold. Prints Available.
Reach
c. 2016 Lisa Marten
24x30 mixed media on canvas
Original For Sale. Prints For Sale.
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Marten Evergreen
about the performance art company I co-founded
Our work explores relational aspects of human spirituality and identity. As we use our bodies to create art, much like the catalyst of performance art in the 1960's and 1970's (2D artists took visual art into 3D by utilizing the body in performance). We are re-addressing the original intent from visual two dimensional work into the third dimension and then back into the second dimension. Being 2D artists ourselves, we do this by performing our mixed media avant-garde work upon a canvas (with a reveal at the end) and therefore going from 3D back into 2D.
Marten Evergreen is an advanced ecosystem of artists that collaborate together to explore in performance art. We are Lisa Marten and Lukas Evergreen and we have worked with artists such as Krysta Nebeker, Caid Jones, Jeremy Busack, Gonzalo Valdez, Naomi Psalm, Travis Nelson, and Jessie Nilo.
We have performed live at various art events, fundraisers, and private events throughout Boise. We are RAW artists. We performed at RAWards Boise Semi-Finals in 2012. We are currently partnering with Dead Bird Art and Framing to help produce Art in the Bar events at The Knitting Factory Concert House in Boise.
photo by Starry Night Media at Art in the Bar V
photo by McManus Photography at Dia De Los Muertos
photo by Boise Visual Artists at RAW Boise
photo by Starry Night Media at Art in the Bar VI
photo by Starry Night Media at Art in the Bar VIII
You can follow us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/martenevergreen
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Watch a live performance by Marten Evergreen:
"A Fragile Process of the Creative Minds"
performance art piece by MARTEN EVERGREEN
performers: Lisa Marten, Lukas Evergreen, Krysta Nebeker, Jeremy Busack
performed live at Art in the Bar V at The Knitting Factory in Boise on February 18, 2012.
DJ music "Die Tonight Live Forever" by Inner Party System. Live music "Listen" by Naomi Psalm.
Sound by Paul Goetter. Photography by Starry Night Media and Sarah C. Goetter Photography and several others. Video shot by Brandon Freeman and several others. This video was shot by C. Shepard
First Song:
*minds are stimulated with inspiration
*lift of lamentation
*base coat
*lift of lamentation
*the exchange of creative talents, painting the shirts
*preparation of artistic execution, displaying of shirts
Dramatic Interlude
Second Song:
*full on creation of art by full participation, no holding back
*finale is an exploration of Gods creative and intimate connection with man. we finish in a position representing DaVinci's "Madonna of the Rocks" and Michelangelo's iconic image of God giving life to Adam (represented by what we've painted).
*pop the bubble, the work is finished
some meaning behind the work:
yellow is divinity, blue is baptism, the bubble is the right side of everybody's brain. the song represents a desire for each other, in community and is all painted through the pure aspects of materialistic humanity. whether good or evil we must search for truth up until the end. how we influence each other through collaboration. we teach, we learn. we can't but help coming away from collaboration with a little bit of each other afterwards. who we are is a piece of everyone we have connected with. the piece is representing when we collaborate with each other, we as the participants are neurons in the brain responding to each other's ideas, cross pollinating. painting on each other is just that, ideas connecting, moving, and influencing, as the work comes together, execution of the work that is collaboration, result in the final piece as it is brought together, is the work. the work is painting on people's lives, it is the connection of divinity and humanity. collaboration. fellowship.
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Watch a live performance by Marten Evergreen:
"Integration"
performance art piece by
MARTEN EVERGREEN
performers: Lisa Marten and Lukas Evergreen
performed live in Boise at The BSU SPEC for NAMI on Friday May 8, 2015
music by The Irrepressibles. Photography and Video by Jessie Nilo.
Marten Evergreen at NAMI
Tonight's showing at NAMI was absolutely stunning. Enjoy this video of Marten Evergreen's performance. "This piece is about the isolation one can experience from mental illness: representing the person who is reacting to the sudden baragement of others, being thrown things from life -good and bad- and forced to deal with/handle it only out of what they are capable. At one point she reaches out and together they dance with the paint (representing the person coming to acceptance of themselves and allowing what life is to integrate with them, becoming more of who they are, accepting who they are, and being who they are meant to be). This is the ebb and flow...the unforced rhythms of grace."
Posted by Jessie Nilo on Saturday, May 9, 2015
artist statement:
The journey of an individual coming to terms with what's within.
Discovery. Struggle. Acceptance. Embrace.
This is the dance.
piece summary:
Lisa represents the individual going through the process of discovering who they are. Lukas represents the struggles of life (whether that be mental illness, disorder, addiction, hardships. relational, emotional, spiritual, physical. other's initiated or self initiated.) The individual can experience isolation within the struggle. Whatever life brings or throws (from within, from others) whether good or bad, the individual is forced to deal with/handle it only out of what they are capable. At one point Lisa reaches out and together with Lukas they dance with the paint (representing the individual coming to acceptance of themselves and allowing what life is to integrate with them, becoming more of who they are, accepting who they are, and being who they were meant to be.) We really desired this piece to be able to speak to not only those who struggle with mental illness...but to all of us who live and breathe. For we all have our own journeys within. Integration is accomplished when we allow the struggles we face to guide us to who we were meant to be.
Thank you again to NAMI for asking Marten Evergreen to be a part of such a wonderful event. We have been honored to come along side you to help raise funds for all you do.
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