LISA GLEIM, AAPLF, AFC, ASMA, AWAM, CGA, IAPS/MC, PSA, SAA, SPSM
Atlanta native Lisa Gleim is an award-winning wildlife, landscape, and portrait artist, as well as an accomplished graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the oldest continuously operating art museum and art school in the United States. Lisa splits her time between Atlanta and Big Sky, Montana, and credits the time she’s spent out west as the catalyst for some of her primary subject matters: wild animals including bears, bison, and wolves.
Lisa works predominantly in pastels, but also in oil and charcoal. She’s particularly skilled at capturing the glow of light and how it illuminates her subjects, especially Western animals. She also distinguishes her wildlife pieces using various ephemera—including vintage national park and state maps, advertisements, and fishing licenses—as the painting’s backgrounds. She adds small touches like gold leaf or a sliver of stone to draw viewers in to imagine the art’s story.
Lisa is the Audubon Artists Gold Medal of Honor for Pastel recipient for 2012 and 2016; Audubon Artists 2013 Art Spirit Foundation's Gold Medal Award for Pastel; and the Audubon Artists 2019 Art Spirit Foundation’s Silver Medal Award for Pastel recipient. In 2016 Lisa was named the Atlanta Branch of the National League of Pen Women's Artist of the Year. In 2020, the Booth Western Art Museum outside of Atlanta, acquired her pastel, The Secret Keepers, for its permanent collection.
Lisa has exhibited her works in numerous juried and invitational exhibitions, including Cowgirl Up! at Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Arizona; The Russell Show & Sale at the C.M. Russell Museum in Montana; the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Wyoming; the Booth Western Art Museum in Georgia; the Briscoe Western Art Museum in Texas; the Lovetts Gallery in Oklahoma; the Haggin Museum in California; the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art in Georgia; the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center in Tennessee; Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art in Maryland; the Harbor History Museum in Washington; the Gibbes Museum of Art in South Carolina; and the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art in Georgia.
Lisa’s works are also held in public and private collections around the world, including the offices of U.S. Congresswoman Nikema Williams, Uline Company, Chick-fil-A, Paramount Pictures, Cartoon Network, Division of Orthopaedics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and AstraZeneca BioPharmaceuticals.
Lisa is a Master Circle member of the International Association of Pastel Societies; Master-Signature member and board member of American Women Artists; a Signature Member of Artists for Conservation, Cowgirl Artists of America, American Society of Marine Artists and Pastel Society of America; an Artist Member of the Copley Society of Art; an Elected Member of Audubon Artists and Allied Artists of America; a Fellow Artist of American Artists Professional League; a Master Pastelist of Southeastern Pastel Society; a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and Society of Animal Artists; and cofounder of the Atlanta Fine Arts League.
Her work is represented by McLarry Fine Art in Santa Fe; SmithKlein Gallery and Paderewski Fine Art in Colorado; Floyd Fine Arts in South Carolina; Arise Fine Art in Montana; Beverly McNeil Gallery in Alabama; Lovetts Gallery in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and the Atlanta Artist Collective.
Lisa has a studio in Atlanta where she lives with her husband, daughter, and two rescue dogs.
Falconry in Scotland
Sketching on safari in Botswana
Below the Antarctic Circle
