Lisa Kristine Gallery

The photographs in this gallery are stunning: they are large sized beautiful images that are perfectly framed. I was going to walk back and get S so he could see them. I was impressed.
There wasn’t anything I wanted to take home. That’s not saying that they weren’t amazing. I wish I had taken all of them, but there wasn’t anything that I had not seen before when I judge at camera clubs.
Five stars for the gallery, five stars for the technique that the artist used and her ability to interact with her subjects. However, it is only three stars for the subject matter.

I think it is my emotional nature that made me a bit teary eyed looking through her photos. The man holding on to the elephant’s tusks made me feel the relationship between animal and master just as anyone of us love our cats and dogs as if they are our very own children. Or the content faces of the natives in the Appalachian mountains that seemed to express innocence, a sense of community, connections and images that we normally won’t see everyday. She captured the emotions and art that inspire the heart and soul to move on and live. I wish I could afford her artwork, maybe someday who knows!

Fantastic!!!

Be prepared to be moved. This is art that captures your eye and goes straight to your soul.

I stopped in here recently and was surprised by the beauty and quality of the photography in this gallery.
The portraits were my favorite of everything I saw. The subjects seemed to be staring directly at me, inviting me to join them in their world. The books were beautiful, though the photographs documenting modern day slavery were sometimes too much for me to handle. Nothing gory or disgusting was shown, but seeing how exhausted the people looked on all levels of functioning was difficult.
I think art is meant to invite the viewer outside of their own ego, to bring us beyond ourselves into a shared experience with an other. The photography in this gallery certainly did that for me, so 5 stars it is.

Pretty cool gallery to check out. Sure, I don’t think I could ever afford some of the photos, but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy them for a moment.
You’ll find a lot of striking and interesting photos here, and as long as it’s not crowded (it was this day), then I imagine you spend a lot of time just staring into the pictures and enjoying the varying bits of detail that make photography like this great.
Anyway, I only stepped in for ten minutes or so, certainly not long enough to make a great review, but the time I spent here was pretty chill so I’ll end with that.

What a treasure to find this gallery and the spiritual, sensory delight. Went twice during three day visit to Sonoma. Now I have a few of these images on my birthday wish list so I may bring the experience in my home sanctuary and add them to my own images from my times in the Middle East. Look forward to next visit to Sonoma and this gallery is now on my must visit list!

Many of us have visited places that feature stunning works of art, but for whatever reason just aren’t our style. That’s how I feel about the Lisa Kristine Gallery. The photographs are expertly composed and with vivid colors and subjects that draw you right in, but to a limited point for me. I’ve passed by her windows several times and even have occasionally wandered in trying to figure out what I’m missing. Yet, I just can’t emotionally connect. Sorry. However, I fully understand how many other people could be absolutely Wowed by these works.

Amazing! No words can even begin to describe the beauty Lisa captures in her work.

The Lisa Kristine Gallery is a marvelous little wonder down the street from Mission St. Francis Solano. Though the plaza is a place of activity– this gallery is a place of refuge. It is meditative, with huge pictures of a young Buddhist monk with his tiger, or a Buddhist nun so androgynous she looks like an old man. There are colorful pictures depicting the yellow expanse of the Sahara, with blue clad nomads, or Tibetan dancers in ceremonial outfits. Each picture is an opportunity for contemplation.
I had a surreal experience at this gallery, because it reminded me of another place, another city with adobe, a plaza, and mission churches. I told the lady at the desk that this gallery reminded me of Santa Fe, as if I had been at this gallery in Santa Fe. It’s true that there is a Lisa Kristine Gallery in Santa Fe, but it opened after I left, and I haven’t been to Santa Fe in nearly a decade.
Truth is stranger than fiction.

I am almost embarrassed to say that I have not heard of this gallery before. I was immediately captivated by the image in the window. And as I walked in I grew more and more captivated. It was as if she (Lisa Kristine) were speaking to me as each photo told a story of the moment. It was impossible to graze through the gallery from piece to piece. Each image literally demanded my attention, and I found myself standing still in front of each photo for uncounted points of time.
I still think of the photos from time to time, and can’t wait to go back and purchase a few.
I can’t stop talking about Lisa Kristine!

Gosh, she must have a thousand special color filters on her. Her images are poetic and her ability to capture her subjects with such emotion is uncanny. Her portraits capture an intimacy within her subjects, which surprises me and makes me feel a sense of nostalgia for the portraits location.
It’s really difficult not to look at one of her images and not notice that the colors play as important a role in the pics as her subjects. They’re just so bright that they enhance the shot.
She has many famous photos from India, but her shop also features images from Zanzibar and Tibet.
Dosa on Fillmore (upstairs section) and Roti Indian Bistro (West Portal and Burlingame) showcase her prints from India. I haven’t seen her other prints elsewhere. Next time you’re dining at either one of these restaurants — look around the place and you’ll know the wall prints are one of Lisa Kristine’s, because you won’t be able to stop looking at it. They’re just captivating.

A quite stunning collection of ‘dwellings’ ‘humanity’ and ‘water’. Those are the three categories of her images per her website.
A lot of us aspire to travel but most people will not travel to the places captured so beautifully by Lisa Kristine. Visit her website or stop by here to see what I mean!

Amazing gallery containing an amazing photographer’s work. I think the gallery is a little small for such stunning images though. A larger space probably would showcase her work better. The prints are very reasonably priced. I bought a print and met Lisa at a street fair in SF. She is really friendly and down to earth.

Wow wow wow. Most amazing pictures of indigenous people. I was blown away by the vibrant colors. Looking at her work makes me ache to travel. AHHHHHHHH!

WOW! The artist captures amazingly stunning photographs/​images! Truly moves you and very though provoking with the most striking colors and techniques…
Her works are simply amazing, with images of The Great Wall of China, of dwelling images of Morocco, South Africa, Croatia, India, Turpan, Prague, etc. Each picture is so breathtaking and totally capturing the right essence and moments.
From the artist’s website:
Lisa Kristine is a San Francisco based photographer specializing in images of remote indigenous peoples. Initially spending nearly five years in Asia, she immersed herself in world philosophies and religions. Upon her return in 1988, she showed her first body of photographic work. For over 20 years, Lisa has documented in over 55 countries on six continents throughout the world and has been active in publications, galleries, foundations, museums and educational venues.
She has another gallery in Mendocino.