"My work is essentially about a physical process… about transforming the act of painting into an act of building. On the surface there are deliberate relationships between forms and lines… but ultimately the work remains a kind of organized chaos… experimental, contradictory and open to interpretation by the viewer."

"Ariotti's desire to balance the raw natural power of human inspiration with an ordered approach to modern architecture results not only in a visual aesthetic that is both chaotic and restrained, but a working process that is parts vision and exploration"

Irene Borngraeber
Art Critic for Art Voices Magazine
Publisher Terrence Sanders, New Orleans

"Lisa’s works consistently emphasize their materiality often seeming almost sculptural. Substantial, tactile, and rich—the circumstances of their making are registered upon them and are an integral part of their character and intrigue. They evolve both as matter, invention and thought… contemplative… resonant and demanding."

Bruce McGraw
Professor of Painting and Drawing
San Francisco Art Institute

"...Lisa is fascinated by the discovery of slight variances within a collection of images. Her palette creates sameness within each of her multiple paintings but the work becomes most intriguing through its differences."

Steve Bollman
Exhibition Coordinator
Art Center/South Florida