Lisa Reinertson had been creating monumental sculptures cast in bronze since her first major commission: "Martin Luther King, Jr." in Kalamazoo, MI in 1989.

Reinertson earned her Masters of Fine Arts degree at the University of California at Davis where she studied with Robert Arneson, and Manuel Neri. While she was directly and personally influenced by both of them, she has also been strongly influenced by the figurative traditions in painting and sculpture. Her work combines a realism rooted in the humanist figurative tradition in art with a contemporary expression of social and psychological content.