Lisa Naples: Grounded in Gold
This Solo Show of sculpture will run from May 24th through Nov. 23rd, 2025 at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA. This is the rarest of rare exhibitions in Lisa's long studio career... an offering from her depths.
Time & Location
May 24, 2025, 10:00 AM
Doylestown, 138 S Pine St, Doylestown, PA 18901, USA
About the event
A Study For Tenderness, 2024 
Tenderness, 2024 
Unity, 2025 
First & Second Study for Integration, 2024 
1:3, 2024 
Seeing Red and Choosing Not to Involve, 2024 
Lost, 2024 
Dialectic, 2024 
Integration 1, 2024 
Integration II, 2025 
Choosing Presence, 2025 
Completion (2 Pieces), 2025 
Recognizing Infinity (2 Pieces), 2025
Across art history, gold has long represented what is sacred and precious. Drawing from this symbolism, Lisa Naples’ most recent group of abstract and representative sculptures are literally and metaphorically grounded in this material. With either 2-3 chimney-like openings or 2-3 hares facing towards or away from one another, these sculptures explore the wide range of human experiences lived within and outside one’s self. They also point to the fact that regardless of whether we're caught in the ego-mind or fully embodied in Presence, our Being is held by the Sacred. In moments of tenderness or estrangement, Naples’ works invite viewers to understand these experiences as ones still grounded in gold.
Naples studied ceramics under Hui, Ka Kwong at Douglass College of Rutgers University, under William Daley at the Philadelphia College of Art, under Graham Marks at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY and under Walter Ostrom at the…