San Diego Artist Lisa Bebi

San Diego based mixed-media artist Lisa Bebi commemorates human stories using painted forms, typography, textures, and found objects. She puts together provocative yet relatable narratives that contain echoes of Dadaism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism -- but through the lens of her own fresh originality and perspective.



Thankfully, Lisa Bebi’s story continues, providing further introspection. “Thinking now, I realize that their “together” history didn’t line up. My parent’s honeymoon was a road trip up and down the CA coast. That is fine, but they were recently from Nashville. Wait, except my dad, was from Cincinnati, and my mom was Nashville at the time. 

As years rolled by, I got a little more of the puzzle pieces. Then after my parents both passed, I saw documents, and it began to all make sense. Well sort of…

Long story short, my dad, who changed his last name before my birth, initially he was of Jewish heritage. My mom was not Jewish. My dad was married and had an affair with my mom. Mom became pregnant…My mom left for CA with an ultimatum. He followed. He took whatever he could fit in his car, and left everything else to his wife and followed her here. They married in TJ.

It’s run of the mill drama, but it was a big family secret back then…”