LISA HORLANDER : INTERSTITIAL SPACES
November 29, 2025 - January 10, 2026
Press Release
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(Dallas) Ro2 Art is proud to present Interstitial Spaces, an exhibition by artist Lisa Horlander. In Interstitial Spaces, Horlander invites viewers into the silent intervals of nature—spaces between branches, under roots, and within the layered transitions of time. Working across drawing, painting, and printmaking, the artist distills the delicate interplay of light and void, forming compositions that speak to both ecological resilience and emotional terrain.
Using ephemeral color palettes drawn from fleeting moments—dusk, dawn, changing seasons—Lisa Horlander captures the atmospheric shifts that often pass unnoticed. These images are then transformed into polymorphic sculptural forms that mimic the negative space in natural systems, challenging the viewer’s understanding of what is form and what is absence. Set against the backdrop of urban development, the works become metaphors for the human condition—how we survive, adapt, and find beauty in spaces that feel overlooked or in-between. Interstitial Spaces is a meditation on fragility and strength, presence and absence, growth and decay. |
About the Artist
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Lisa Horlander is a mixed-media artist whose work explores visual negative space and transitions in time. Horlander is a Studio Artist and Founder at InBetween Studios in Tyler, TX. She graduated with her BFA in studio arts in 2017, her MA in 2023, and her MFA in 2025 at The University of Texas at Tyler. She was part of Cohort 2 with the Cedars Union in Dallas, where she was a Studio Artist and part of their Curatorial Committee. She participated in the Summer Residency Program at New York University in 2018 with mentors Valerie Hegarty, Noel W. Anderson, and Heather Bhandari. Horlander was the Education Coordinator at the Tyler Museum of Art, Committee Chair at Gallery Main Street in Downtown Tyler, and part of the leadership team for ETX Creatives. She is the host of the podcast Don’t Drink the Paint Water, and was a cohost of ETX Creatives The Podcast. Horlander has exhibited her work most recently with RO2 Art in Dallas, The Janette Kennedy Gallery in Dallas, and The Tyler Museum of Art.
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exhibition statement
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“My work explores intervals in space and time with an emphasis on visual negative space. I portray visual contours between tree branches and roots, while using ephemeral colors from transitions in time, in the imagery I capture on paper using an array of drawing, printmaking, and painting techniques. I manipulate those surfaces to create polymorphic forms shaped to mimic the visual negative spaces I reference in my 2D imagery. The imagery in my work focuses on the natural ecosystems surviving within urban development in my nearby surroundings, where I see metaphors for human experiences within the survival and devastation of those ecosystems. I am interested in portraying the visual contours between tree branches and roots, along with using ephemeral colors from transitions in time and seasons, in the imagery I capture on paper.”
- Lisa Horlander, 2025 |
