For her first exhibition with Lisson Gallery in London, American painter Joanna Pousette-Dart will present a series of new paintings and works on paper. Pousette-Dart’s shaped paintings are unique in their melding of formal and poetic concerns, and take their inspiration from many sources: Islamic, Mozarabic and Catalonian art, Chinese landscape paintings and calligraphy, Mayan and American Indian art, as well as the landscape itself. Her perceptions of place deeply influence her work and the dynamic shaped canvases, with colours that infuse light from the natural world, and create unconventional and alluring compositions.