Lisa Baird -Bio Although she has worked in a variety of media including sculpture, video and installation art, Lisa Baird is currently making colorful mixed media works on paper. Her work draws not only from life but from the imagination in a process that is playful and unconscious. Her paintings contain narrative elements and a domestic, familial intimacy. Often, scale is skewed, gravity is defied, and the picture plane is covered with images, pattern, and color. What she is seeking is not realism or abstraction but the unconscious and intuitive mystery of being human.Lisa Baird works and lives outside of Philadelphia, PA. She received a BA in Art History and Painting from Bowdoin College, a BFA in Painting from The San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from The Maryland Institute, College of Art. She has taught at the University of the Arts, Drexel University, The Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, and The Delaware College of Art and Design. She has won awards both for her teaching and for her art including a Leeway Award for Sculpture and the MBNA award for best practices in Education. Her work is in private collections in the United States, Europe, and Australia.