Lisa Wicka
Lisa Wicka is an American mixed media artist. An expert of composition, she creates stunning work using color and form to explore space, surroundings, and identity. We love her use of pattern and color, and think you will too!
Lisa Wicka received her BFA from the University of Central Florida and her MFA in Painting, Printmaking and Drawing from Purdue University. Her work has shown both national and internationally in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Mexico, Edinburgh, and Sweden. She has participated in numerous residencies and workshops including SparkBox Studios, Women’s Studio Workshop, Ålgården workshop in Sweden, and Officina Stamperia del Nataio in Sicily. She was awarded the Mrs. Granville Wells Memorial Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters for her mixed media sculptural work, exhibited in the Andy Warhol Museum May 2013. Her work is in the permanent collections of Southern Graphics Council, Mid America Print Council, Oregon State University, and Ohio State University.
She explains her work:
We live in the spaces...
between past and present,
between empty and occupied,
between mind and body,
between physical and virtual,
between tangible and lost,
between loneliness and love,
between exposed and hidden.
Through the breakdown and rebuilding of the in between, my work mimics the everyday navigation of these realms. Temporary moments of clarity come together and fall apart creating a self in motion, evolving through experience, place, failures and successes. My work is a surface where this dialogue becomes visible explorations of my surroundings and my identity, a surrogate self with limitless possibilities. Often referencing architectural spaces, wallpapers, and raw materials, my work brings into question the solidity and accuracy of things we hold true. Printmaking, drawing and mixed media methods allow me to acknowledge my experiences, dissect them, and reconstruct them into something concrete; if only for a moment.
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