Francie Lyshak's textured oils are discrete objects in and of themselves. The glowing pigment fields in Lyshak's canvases, scraped with sculptural marks, create a surface relief that interacts with the ambient light. Dominique Nahas observies " These surfaces are replete with strength, subtlety and nuance...takes into consideration experiential and psychical experiences that converge in the mind’s eye as a pre-verbal type of consciousness."