Lisa was born in San Francisco, CA, 1966. Growing up in the Haight Ashbury, her childhood was shaped by the Hippie Generation, flowers and tie-dye, and freedom of expression. She majored in Fine Arts at UC Berkeley, specializing in printmaking and painting. She enjoyed showing her works in the East Bay. After college, she worked professionally in set design and graphic arts. Currently, besides being a painter, she is a graphic designer in Sonoma specializing in wine/beer labels, signage, and tourism-directed marketing materials.

The 2017 Sonoma Firestorm burned down Lisa’s art studio, which housed her portfolios and past works, along with her family home in Glen Ellen. The devastation created incredible loss. Fire has influenced her new works, more in the tone of a survivor than victim of loss. Lisa has rebranded herself since then, making a new beginning, signing her works as LisaMac, her updated persona. The fires and losses ignited a new passion and energy to paint the abstracted life around her.

“Inspiration for my work comes from living in the Bay Area my whole life... being immersed in a grand diversity of culture, people, lifestyle, economics, politics, and spirituality. Thus, the battle between opposing forces, the calm vs. chaos, and hopefully the balance of the Bay Area's unique composition, emerges harmoniously in my paintings.”