This is a body of work that differs from my previous works on paper (watercolors, pastels, acrylic, graphite); my photograph based jazz series, and my self portraits.
A former Software Engineer, I found myself drawn toward creation using many disparate elements combined with an electronic pen using digital methods. I find the freedom of this method boundless. I can scan hand-drawn work on paper, plants, cheesecloth, etc. and incorporate this into the work. I can also use photographs, screen shots of images on the net, apply various techniques of distortion, shading, and opacity in order to create layers of shading, depth, and the illusion of 3-D. I include figurative as well as text elements into the abstraction. This is what my "current works" body of work is about.
“Employing an arsenal of digital tools, Melissa Lambert mines a hallucinatory territory embedded with personal codes and signals that lend her dizzying, pixelated surfaces unusual depth”
-Michael Ned Holte, writer
“Doppelganger”
“Bicontinuous”
“Apsis”
“Soma”
“Echoing Fields”
“Continu Espace-temps”
