Lia is a 2001 MFA graduate from the Yale University School of Art and a 1999 BA graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her paintings are inspired by physics and unseen natural forces around us such as light, motion, dissipation, centrifugal forces, gravity and magnetism. Laws of physics that are familiar and observable become just as important as the figures they interact with. The figures lie in an unresolved point between giving in and becoming overtaken, experiential in their environments.