News

  • Featured in Sonoma Magazine

    Petaluma abstract artist Lisa Lightman

    The 47th annual San Francisco Decorator Showcase — a design event and home tour that invites several top Bay Area designers to transform a home in the city — is open to the public from April 25 through May 25, 2026. Sonoma County Magazine featured the event.  “…Maker & Moss’s design of “The Study” features several artworks by Petaluma abstract artist Lisa Lightman. Her piece “Highway 101 in The Morning” sits above the chaise. (Brad Knipstein Photography).  The yellow in Lightman’s piece was a natural match for the punchy-colored chair, according to principal Maker & Moss designer Briana Tunison, who worked on the room with the firm’s founder, Matt Bissinger. Several of Lightman’s pieces are placed throughout the space.”

  • I Am a Curious 100 2026 Honoree

    It’s a curated list created by the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity to celebrate and recognize 100 individuals who apply curiosity as a tool to tackle major societal challenges. I’m deeply honored to be a part of this amazing list of past and present honorees. I’m under the category of Maker. https://www.eamesinstitute.org/curious-100/2026

  • Decorator Showcase 2026

    Thank you Maker and Moss for being a 2026 Decorator Showcase Designer and selecting my work for the creative reimagining of a stunning Victorian home. I’m honored. Here is one of several works selected.

    Highway 101 in the Morning

  • Award of Merit Received

    Gallery Route One, Juried Show

    Frances McCormack, Juror, San Francisco Art Institute

    January 2025

  • From a Friend

  • Co-Curator for Exhibition

    In addition to my artist self, I’ve been active at the Petaluma Arts Center where I’m on the board and chair of the exhibitions committee. I am a co-curator for our exhibition in the main gallery called The Art of Materials. It’s been a wonderful and new experience for me and even more exciting to introduce friends to many exceptional artists in the Bay Area.

    Exhibition Dates: May 9-June 22, 2024.
    https://petalumaartscenter.org/

  • Open Studios in November 2023

    I had such a wonderful time at Open Studios last year that I’m doing it again. Please join me and 10 other artists who will exhibit their work amidst the contemporary furniture of Room and Board. It will be great to see you again. 

    Date and Time

    Artist Reception: Friday, November 10 from 6-8pm

    Saturday, November 11 from 10am-6pm
    Sunday, November 12 from 11am-6pm

    Location

    Room & Board
    685 Seventh Street, San Francisco

  • Artwork Selected

    My artwork, Botanical Fourteen, was selected for the Petaluma Arts Center’s 15th Anniversary Wine Label Series. This is a joint project with Barber Cellars, a small family winery in Petaluma.

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  • Featured in American Artwork Magazine

    My art is featured in the 2023 edition of American Artwork.

  • 2023 Annual Juried Exhibition, “Seen and Imagined”

    February 18-March 18, 2023

    Gallery Route One in Pt Reyes Station, CA presented the 2023 Annual Juried Exhibition, “Seen and Imagined,” featuring artists in a diverse range of media including painting, collage, etching, photography, mixed media, and sculpture. The theme draws on the interplay and confluence between the inner and outer worlds, and how reality cannot be defined in concrete terms.  Juried by artist, educator and Lucid Art Foundation Vision Board member, Jeremy P.H. Morgan.

    Seed, mixed media collage on board, 12 x 12 inches, 2022, sold