Lisa Nankivil is a contemporary American painter and printmaker best known for her dynamic striped-fomat abstractions that blend brilliant color, intricate surface texture, and spatial illusion.

Nankivil trained at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design

I am a critic and aspiring artist. I live on Flatbush Avenue and haunt the Brooklyn Library. I love architecture and the Seven Wonders of the World. I want to go to Dubai and live in the ruins of the Burj Al-Arab after society falls.

The eloquence of my drawings I can't match with words. In spite of this, I'm asked so regularly and with such persistence to give a specific explanation, that I don't want to refuse out rightly doing so. I have consciously not chosen a text