Art at the Hive / Lissa Karpeh

Lissa Karpeh spent most of Summer 2020 painting murals that honor George Floyd, an unarmed black man murdered by the Minneapolis Department.  

Now, you can view a collection of her paintings at The Hive Salon in Northeast Minneapolis.

Karpeh is a Liberian-American artist working out of Studio 400 in the Northrup King Building. She's cultivating a signature style using brush strokes that send energy flying into the room, balanced with areas of raw canvas. There's a power in the restraint of her process—knowing when to stop.

Her paintings are narrative, sometimes intimate moments with Liberian friends and family at home. There are cultural comments like a pair of high-heeled friends going on a night out, and a child soldier who dreams of trading his machine gun for crayons.