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By Alia Akkam
Photos courtesy of Kelly Marshall
GOLD STANDARD
Artist Lisa Hunt brings her signature look to tile design
Aſt er some 30 years living in Brooklyn, New York, visual artist
Lisa Hunt and her husband took off for the suburbs, sett ling in
Maplewood, New Jersey in 2019. " Each year, I've planted fl owers,
trees, and shrubs in the front and backyard, " she says, and as she
presides over those fl ourishing green patches, " I learn so much
about creating color, texture, and even white space. It's very
similar to what I do in my collages and other works on paper. "
Hunt's screenprinted designs, oſt en tinged with gold leaf and
incorporating West African patt erns, is the crux of her practice
as an artist today. Long before now, she was a curious child
with a father in the Air Force, constantly moving around until
the family landed in Aurora, Colorado when she was 9 years
old. " Daydreaming and reading was a great foundation for my
creativity as a child. I loved gett ing lost in my own thoughts and
creating visual worlds, " Hunt recalls.
A few years later, she fell in love with the art of magazines
and " knew I wanted to fi gure out a way to move to New York
and be a part of creating them, " she says. She studied graphic
design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and spent some 20 years
as a designer and creative director in the publishing industry,
bringing issue aſt er issue to life.
For the most recent stage of her journey, Hunt, a member of
the Female Design Council and a founding member of the Black
Artists + Designers Guild, has been commissioned for several
large-scale works, like a duo of canvases for the St. Regis Amman
in Jordan and a mural that adorns an elevator bank in the lobby
of a high-end Brooklyn residence from JDS Development. She's
also collaborated with product designer Lori Weitzner, who
tapped Hunt to hatch fi ve wallpaper and textile designs for her
Reverie collection. Unveiled in 2020, they reinterpret such classic
motifs as palm trees and arrows.
Hunt then joined forces with Ann Sacks to unveil the Asha
capsule of tiles in 2023, named for her mother who nurtured her
budding imagination. " She was an amateur artist herself and I
have memories of her painting, " Hunt refl ects. Asha translates
Hunt's signature graphics to tiles. " I'm drawn to repeat
patt erns so that was a natural part of the process. The diff erent
materials and fabrications were where my imagination went
wild. I was inspired by the possibilities of stone, marble,
porcelain, and ceramic, " she says.
Hunt begins each of her designs by playing with shapes on
the computer before she prints out the sketches in black and
white and experiments with ink, paint, and colored pencil.
Even those compositions that don't make the fi nal cut might
re-emerge a few years later. " Like most artists, I don't like to
discard anything, " Hunt says. " I love to reimagine new works
from old. " hd
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The color palette of the Asha collection for Ann
Sacks is accented by Hunt's signature gold
hue, adding a handmade quality to the line
The Love tile's Art Deco font is
reimagined as a repeat pattern
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