Tamara Nike ​

This acrylic painting, measuring 95 by 63 inches, is based on a digital collage created in Photoshop.  The photoshop file has around 6 layers that are overlapping with various filters causing each layer to interact with the one below it differently.  One of the layers consists of a beautiful painting by Tamara de Lempicka (one of my favorite artists, you should check her work out at http://www.delempicka.org).  I also included an image of my favorite statue, which I actually have tattooed on my arm along with the phrase "Art is long, Life is short" in latin.  The subject of said tattoo is the Nike of Samothrace- a timeless beauty of immense proportions created in Greece around the year 200 B.C.E.  She now lives in the Louvre in Paris, France.  I was able to see the statue in person over the summer and she did not disappoint.  Another layer of the mystery as to what the hell is going on in this painting is a drawing I found at Project Gutenburg that was done of a pattern found in something Roman.  The pattern consists of spirals (my obsession) and is layered several times.  


Lisa Sears, Tamara Nike, 95 x 63 in., Acrylic, 2015, $3,500