BY PHIL HARTMAN
SVS REPORTER
phartman@svnmail.com
When Lisa Higby LeFevre put her brush to work creating an image of the Illinois
prairie, she had no idea it would lead her to New York.
Her pastel, "Connections," created as part of a series called "Memoryscapes,"
was picked by the nonprofit National Association of Women Artists for its National
Small Works exhibition. The show runs March 3 through April 3 at its gallery
in New York.
"I was totally surprised" to learn she had been chosen, the Sterling woman said.
"I have been painting pastels for the last two series of paintings. Previously,
it was oils and acrylics."
The show features 69 works, and Higby LeFevre was one of 29 nonmembers chosen
from more than 700 submissions across the country.
Higby LeFevre's studio is in her home, and she shows much of her work in Midwestern
collections. Locally, her artwork can be seen in Dixon, at Distinctive Gardens,
2020 Lowell Park Road, which she co-owns, and at
Books
on First, 202 W. First St.
[In
addition to participating in the store's Visiting Art program, Higby LeFevre
gifted to Books on First her iconic "Dixon Preservation Society" which
shows a typical weekday morning at Books on First, filled with the makers and
observors of Dixon current history. This piece won an unprecedented three
2004 Phidian Society Art Competition awards and is currently on permanent display
at the store.]
She also has pieces on display at QC Arts in Rock Island and Metaphors Gallery
in Arlington Heights.
In 2005, she painted two 14-foot pieces for the sanctuary of First Christian
Church in Dixon, and she's won three consecutive best of show awards at the
local Phidian Art Show.
Samples of her work also can be viewed at
www.lhlefevre.com
.
