About

Lisa Alonzo (b. 1984) was raised in Northern California and earned her BFA in painting in 2008 from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Alonzo uses pastry tips and cake decorating tools to create her paintings which have been shown internationally and widely across the US including shows in New York, Miami, San Francisco and Chicago. Alonzo’s work is held in the public collections of the 21c Museum and The Federal Reserve.

Alonzo uses her unique painting technique to explore a myriad of unsavory themes and make them more palatable by rendering them as heavily frosted confections. The overarching theme connecting her body of work is an examination of consumption- of information, goods, and our historic inability to decipher truth from fiction. By piping acrylic gel medium onto the surface with pastry bags and tips, she creates an enticing visual and tactile experience for the viewer. The end result is a painting that looks deceptively good enough to eat: an abundance of peaks, starbursts, flowers, pointillistic and rhythmic dots, and ribbons of graduated color draped over decadent mounds of paint masquerading as frosting.

The artist currently lives and works in Maine with her husband and two young sons