Artist's Biography and Statement
Lisa King graduated from Georgia State University with a BFA in Printmaking. She studied Etching and Bookmaking with Larry B. Thomas. She is both a fine artist and a decorative painter. In 2005, she started her own design company, Change of Space, which specializes in interior finishes. With fellow artist Jordan Ososki, she creates handmade silkscreened wallpaper of her own design by sister company, No Big Wheel Press. She is also a musician, fronting The Hot Place band.
Lisa has an extensive background as both a painter and a printmaker. She studied non-toxic etching processes with master printer Keith Howard, in Peace River, Alberta, Canada. Incorporating these cutting edge techniques with drypoint and electric engraving is what creates the soft line and spontaneously drawn appearance to her etchings. She has shown her work nationally and internationally, and her etchings and paintings are in the personal collections of musicians Michael Stipe of R.E.M., Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots, Denny Walley of the Magic Band, Brad Lewis of the Sight-seers, and Jeff Calder of the Swimming Pool Q’s. Her work is also collected by Kit West and John Baker, the special effects coordinators of film-maker George Lucas.
Lisa draws inspiration from the Symbolists and Decadents of the late 1800’s, and is influenced by artists, poets, and aesthes such as Klimt, Moreau, Munch, Redon, Blake, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Wilde, and Breton. As an avid fan of the Surrealists, Bohemian Paris, and Mythology, Lisa is moving her current work in a direction based in Symbolism, and is also informed by the teachings of Joseph Campbell. She is striving to create her own “Personal Mythology”, with a new series of 18 paintings. The number 18 was chosen, because 1 is the symbol for the self, and 8 the symbol of infinity.
visit her on MySpace at:
http://www.myspace.com/lisakingart
http://www.myspace.com/thehotplace
visit her band site at:
http://www.thehotplaceband.com
"The Magician"- Lisa King, 2006