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George Billis Gallery is pleased to present Lisa Golightly: Marking Time - the gallery’s second solo exhibition of works by the Portland-based realist painter. The exhibition continues through January 2nd.

The starting place for Golightly’s work is decades old found photos. The stillness of a photo belies an anticipation to know what happened before and what is to come next. These images are a literal look back but also force the viewers to evaluate the present and future.

The act of transforming a photo into a painting with both traditional brush strokes, as well as allowing the paint to …