Lisa MacNamara

My recent series attempts to integrate penned-up, internal emotional energy, through visually exploring the elegance of the female form in painting.

I channel emotions from every part of my body towards paint and brush and the connection begins with the piece. Allowing color to overflow and tangle up with texture; forming shape upon shape relationships. Crisis after crises burdens the body and heart, the weight is unbearable.

The women figures collapses in parts. Taking the punches put before her, tousled to decomposing, and she is left standing.

Educatiion

2015 Arizona State University, Tempe,

AZ,2 BFAs, Sculpture and Painting

2008- 2009 International Association of

Color Consultants and

Designers, San Diego, CA

2008 Joanne Day Studio, Oakland CA,

Mastery of Color

2006-2010 Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ.

AA of Fine Arts

1983-1985 Palm Beach Community College

Psychology, Physiology

Exhibitions

2014 Chandler Art Walk, TechShop, Chandler, AZ

2014 Gallery 100, Form At 100, ASU Tempe, AZ

2013 Ice House Exhibit, Institutional Shenanigans Phoenix, AZ

2013 Walter Gallerey, Scottsdale, AZ

2013 Ice House Exhibit, Architectural Sculpture, Phoenix, AZ

2012 Ice House Exhibit, Slipstream, Phoenix, AZ

2012 Tempe History Museum, Unexpected Unions, Tempe, AZ

2012 Juried Prescott Valley Public Art, Prescott Valley, AZ

2012 Juried Student Art Spring Exhibit,Yavapi

College, Prescott AZ

Awards

2012-2015 Summa Cum Laude, ASU,Tempe,AZ

2013 The Special Talent Scholarship Award, ASU

2012 New Scholar Scholarship Award, ASU, AZ

2012 Outstanding Academic and Art Achievements Award, Yavapai College,AZ

2009 Recipient of Merit Art Scholarship,Yavapi

College, AZ