Lisa Joy Newcomb

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Artist Bio

In 2020 at 65 it had been decades since I made a body of art. Since then, I’ve been honored with 3 first-place awards in photography. The University of Delaware gave me a one-woman show. My work has been seen from coast to coast including several times through the HMVC Gallery in NY and Las LaGuna Gallery in CA. Pictorem based out of Montreal, Canada, has me as a featured artist. Two books were presented to me. Nobis II and Emerald Coast Review.

The photographs I create are abstractions in fluidity, rich in joy, color, pattern, and curiosity. I’ve been printing on aluminum.

I grew up in the Mid-Atlantic and later spent much of my young adult life in New England. For the past 28 years, the Deep South has been home. I have a Master's in Social Work and worked as a social worker and a realtor. In the South, I married and raised a daughter. I also helped plant the seed that grew into the Mississippi Children’s Museum and worked at 2 art museums as a docent for 17 years.

As my images find their way into various exhibits, lives, homes, and businesses, I hope feelings of joy and peace nourish viewers.

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Artist Statement

I create photos as peaceful, playful, healing stimuli by drawing upon different objects and melding them into a unified whole. While working I often think about how our country needs to heal and find unity. Part of my process is setting up compositions and visually weaving together beautiful glass, flowing fabric, and sometimes surprise elements with vibrant colors and patterns into integrated fluid formations. I then photograph tightly cropped, in close proximity to my setup. I intend to transcend and transform objects into images that visually excite while calming the soul.

A lifelong passion for art and artists influenced my work. I nod to feminist artist Miriam Schapiro, a leader in the Pattern and Decoration Movement. She frequently celebrated the invisible women designers of fabrics within her work, in both painting and printing, creating what she called Femages. (feminist collages). Having lived much of my life by the shore, I have always loved the play of light in watery reflections. In turn, I am drawn to artists that capture light. The glass sculptures of Stephen Rolfe Powell delight me by turning solids into liquids and back to flowing forms of solid in a graceful play of movement, pattern, and light. The last of many admired artists I will mention is Georgia O’Keeffe, who believed in the value of coming in close to a subject to find her feelings toward what she was looking at and abstract her rendering of it in her personalized language of expression. I also seek to have personalized language by transcending the absolute and having a visceral impact on the viewer.

In these unsettling times of polarization, and social, political, and environmental strife, I’m transforming light, pattern, and color into a visual oasis. I seek to make abstract images that embrace the value of joy, rich with fluidity and kindness. As an artist and former therapist, I invite the viewer in.

Each of my images can be ordered in small jewel-like prints or large dynamic pieces. I have been printing on ChromaLuxe, a high-definition aluminum, and on white Dibond aluminum panels framed or unframed. My website is; https://www.pictorem.com/