PARIS.- Thaddaeus Ropac shared the news that Lisa Brice has joined the gallery. The gallery will represent her in Europe and her first solo exhibition will open on 16 October 2023 in the Paris Marais space.

Lisa Brice is such a fascinating artist. Her approach to painting and drawing women occupying a space of their own choosing is both arresting and intriguing. Her work is profoundly of our time while recontextualising art historical depictions of women with an authority that is inspiring. — Thaddaeus Ropac

South-African-born and London-based, Lisa Brice paints individual and group portraits of women in her signature cobalt blue. Her figures are liberated from the roles of model and muse to take their place as artists engaged in empowered assertions of self-representation.

I like to think that my paintings are the antithesis of misrepresentation - the reclamation of the canvas by all the models, painters, wives, mistresses and performers. The spaces I depict are dream-like in the sense that they are fictional, but very much based on reality and lived, sensorial experience. — Lisa Brice

Her paintings refuse to be categorised... They refuse to be tied to a specific time or place, but they're drawn together in compositions that are entirely fictitious. She creates conversations or moments for these women to be in dialogue, but crucially this is not for the viewer, it's something that is going on between them.
— Aïcha Mehrez, curator of Art Now: Lisa Brice, Tate Britain