LISA ALLEY

ARTIST BIO:

Lisa Alley is a painter and musician living and working in Austin, TX. As singer and bassist for bands The Well, TV's Daniel and Mugger, Alley has toured internationally throughout the past decade, playing festivals such as Levitation (US), Desertfest (UK, DE, BE), Sonicblast Moledo (PT), Muddy Roots (US), Ripplefest (MX, US), Blues and Roots (NP), and Psycho California. Alley has released five full length albums, multiple eps & singles, and has two additional full length records coming out in 2026.

 

Launching her visual art career in 2020, Alley has created work for Michelin star Austin restaurants, Hestia and Emmer & Rye, and has work on permanent display at their critically acclaimed sister restaurant, Canje. She joined the Bolm Arts Collective in 2024 as Community Outreach Coordinator and current Gallery Coordinator. She has shown in group shows through Bolm Arts Gallery, Concept Animals, Contra/Common Gallery, Mean Street Gallery, the Electric Church and Justine’s Brasserie from 2021 - present. Alley had her first solo show, "Self-Care,"

in 2024 at The Room, and in made her curatorial debut in 2025 with a solo curation of "The Everyman" group show and co-curation of "Pareidolia: A One-Man Group Show” at Bolm Arts.

 

 

ARTIST STATEMENT:

I am interested in making art that brings small moments, the every man, our daily rituals,

into a place of reverence. Primarily an oil painter, I center on portraiture and still life as the narrative cornerstones for larger thematic concepts which are accented through sculpture and multi-media pieces. My aim is to create a web of striking separate works whose combined effect includes the multi-faceted experience of life, with all its nostalgia, drama, humor, mundanity,

and ridiculousness.