Location: United States
I am a mixed-media artist whose works include traditional media (watercolor, pastel, pen and ink, oil, acrylic), digital or new media, and combinations of both. Upcoming plans are to work with animation.
In early 2007 I received a Durfee Foundation ARC (Artists Resource for Completion) Grant. In December 2007, curators Howard Fox of LACMA, Peter Frank of the Riverside County Museum of Art, and Rex Bruce from the LA Center for Digital Art juried work into a show at LACDA. In April of 2008, I was selected by curator Shaurya Kumar of Bowling Green University, Ohio to be in the exhibit "Perfect with Pixel", an international exhibition that focused on works that are done by integrating digital with traditional art-making methods. My work was picked to be a part of the retrospective Intuitive Eye: The Diana Zlotnick Collection at the Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery in 2009. This year I had work curated into the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art which at the museum’s request is now in their permanent collection. My work has also been curated into a hardcover art book now available in bookstores: International Contemporary Masters 2010.
Writer Michael Ned Holte has said of my work “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.”
Influences include the latest fantastical discoveries of particle physics, synchronicity, superstring, holonomic brain and biotic theory, and Taoism. Authors as diverse as Gary Zukov, Brian Greene, Daniel Goleman, Carlos Castenada, Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, William Blake, and Carl Jung have influenced my perception and vision.
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
48" x 48", 2009, back lit in LED panel. LE of six.
Bicontinuous, 2010, 42" x 42" LE of six.
42" x 42", 2011, LE of six.
42" x 42", digital, 2011
42" x 42" LE of six, digital. Available in two other editions, 12 3/4" x 12 3/4" LE of six as well as 48" x 48" backlit in LED panel.
42" x 42" LE of six, digital. Available in two other editions, 12 3/4" x 12 3/4" LE of six as well as 48" x 48" backlit in LED panel.
“Doppelganger”
“Bicontinuous”
“Apsis”
“Soma”
“Echoing Fields”
“Continu Espace-temps”
