THE GALLERY AT STUDIO IX PRESENTS
DECOMPOSERS + DETRIVORES
works by lisa renz
Opening Reception / Friday, September 5th, 5-7PM
Exhibit dates / September 5 - 28
Gallery Hours / M-F, 8-4, Sat & Sun 8-2
Artist Talk / Thursday, September 25th, 5-6PM
‘prickly medicine’, lisa renz, 2025
About the exhibit
The world is full of stories; we retell, recreate, believe, refute, unravel, restructure, recycle, compost, and resurrect them endlessly. We pull and choose the threads of story and meaning to weave our own experiences with those around us. Lisa Renz uses mixed media and images from the natural world to create internal landscapes, prompting questions about decay, composting life experiences into fertile soil for renewal and growth, and storytelling. Lisa re-uses images over and over, mixing them in different ways as "visual ingredients" to make new visual stories, new internal landscapes. Her work focuses on the idea of decomposition as a path-clearing action that allows for new growth; she translates this into imagery that suggests doorways, thresholds, openings, portals, and landscapes built from decomposing matter.
‘decomposers’, lisa renz, 2025
About the artist
Lisa Renz is an artist living and working in Northern Virginia. She received her MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Printmaking from the University of Tennessee in 2007.
website: www.lisarenz.com instagram: @lisa.renz