A Saint Louis native currently based in New York, painter Lisa Sanditz creates exuberant and engaging landscapes that mix the homespun aesthetic of folk art with the calculated gestures of postmodernism. Flyover, Sanditz’s first solo museum exhibition, is a term referring to the vast middle of the United States, including all of the areas wedged between the densely populated East and West Coasts. Depicting real places in Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Alabama, among other locations, Sanditz brings a renewed focus to these underappreciated and less explored sites—highlighting their eccentricities, unique topographies, and architectural structures while simultaneously revealing their connections to a global community defined by commerce, entertainment, and artifice. Lisa Sanditz was a visiting artist at the Kemper Museum.

Above: Lisa Sanditz, Chevrolet Cabriolet Chapel, 2005; acrylic on canvas, 52 x 66 inches, Collection of Sara and John Shlesinger, Atlanta, GA