artist statement
I see my art practice as a metaphor for the day to day human efforts to craft a life from moments; some perfect but most flawed yet repairable. Visual, emotional, personal and sensory experiences all influence my work in a way that is intuitive and a release for me. Issues of fragility, brokenness and ultimately mending are often expressed, revealed and resolved.
Wool fiber is incorporated into much of my work because of it’s transformative nature; changing under my hands in ways that I can almost but not quite control. It teaches me to leave room for the beauty of imperfection. The medium gives me roots—both my own and to humanity. Wool felt is the first fabric created by humankind and when I create with wool I am aware that I am working in an ancient tradition. My personal connection to fiber comes from my female ancestors who spent patient hours crafting quilts, stitching, tatting and crocheting; leaving behind a beautiful legacy for me.
My work is influenced by the structures and grids of architecture, the patched and mended fabrics of old quilts and rustic minimalism. While I aspire to spacious simplicity, I strive to make my art intimate in its detailed textures and inviting to closely inspect and touch. The layers of paper, fabric and wool, ink and stitch that result in the textures and colors are sometimes but not always visible on the surface of the work but are integral to my process. The layers reveal and conceal just enough to let the viewers find their own stories in the work.
Bio
Lisa Hinrichs is a fiber and mixed media artist living in St. Louis, MIssouri. She is a master of felt making, and other textile disciplines having studied with some of the most talented artists in the fiber medium. She is devoted to pushing boundaries and expanding traditional techniques in new and unexpected ways. Lisa’s work is exhibited and collected locally and nationally and has been included in various Fiber Art publications.
Lisa holds a BS in Housing and Interior Design from the University of Missouri-Columbia and Graphic Design from SLCC. While she has moved on from earlier careers in architecture and graphic design, her love of a well designed structure or elegantly composed page find their way into her current work. When she isn’t working in her sunny studio at the Foundry Art Centre, Lisa enjoys traveling, hiking in the beautiful Missouri countryside and spending time with her family and friends.
Lisa’s work can be viewed both at various exhibitions or at her studio in the Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, Missouri. Book a private appointment with Lisa to discuss available work. You can also sign up for her email list to be notified about future exhibitions and workshops, here.
SELECTED SOLO AND duo EXHIBITs
2025, Soft Art in a Hard World, East Gallery/Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri, USA
2024, Boroscapes, Lobby/Kirkwood Performing Arts Center, Kirkwood, Missouri, USA
2023, Current Work, Lobby/Wentzville City Hall, Wentzville, Missouri, USA
2022, Material Alchemy, East Gallery/Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri, USA
2021, Fragments, Anne Lloyd Gallery, Decatur, Illinois, USA, with Suzy Farren
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026, Neighbors, Scheinberg Gallery/Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri, USA
2025, Fiber Focus, Green Door Gallery, Webster Groves, Missouri, USA
2025, Connecting Threads, University City Library Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2024, Fiber Connections, Scenic Rivers Library gallery, Hermann, Missouri, USA
2024, Opera D’Art in Fibre II, Gretchen Brigham Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2023, Art St. Louis XXXXIX: The Exhibition, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2023, Out of This Earth, virtual exhibit, Fiber Arts Take 2, Australia
2023, The Blues, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri, USA
2022, Materiality, Heartland Gallery, Hillsboro, Illinois, USA
2022, Opera D’Art in Fibre, Gretchen Brigham Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2022, Constructed Visions IV, St. Louis Artists Guild, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2022, Contemplations, Bunker Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
2020, Annual Fiber Exhibition, Kansas City Stockyards Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
2019, Materials, Donald D. Shook Gallery/St Charles Community College, St. Charles, Missouri, USA
2019, Fiber Focus, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2019, Felt: Fiber Transformed, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, USA
2018, Felt: Fiber Transformed, Print exhibition/Fiber Art Now Magazine Fall 2018
2017, Speaking of Fiber, Maryville University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2017, Small Works, OA Gallery, Kirkwood, Missouri, USA
2016, Pairings, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
2016, Concerning the Spiritual, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri, USA
2015, Pairings, St. Louis Artists Guild, Clayton, Missouri, USA
2015, Speaking of Fiber, Maryville University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2015, Media Matters, Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, Missouri, USA
2014, Works from the Studios, Craft Alliance, St. Charles, Missouri, USA