Lisa Fricker
Inspired by light, moved by relationships, intrigued by mystery, and seduced by color, I am fascinated by people and their continuing self-creation.
My work has evolved from a background in portraiture, to combining traditional depiction with painterly abstraction. It is at the edges where all the magic happens: whether in the turn of a form, where halftone enriches color at a shadow edge, or between personalities when they spark off one another.
There is a theory I enjoy, of Bubble Universes, separate entities with no shared reality... except at points where they meet. I like to think of the painting surface as a place where thought and emotion meet the physical world, enabling others to glimpse my experience.
Lisa Fricker began painting portraits at 16 – at a theme park! Short poses recorded in charcoal, pastel and watercolor served as an introduction to working from life and unexplored media. After this trial by fire, she attended art school in her native Nashville, continuing her studies at Paier College of Art in Connecticut. She left behind a scholarship to study piano, but was later a painting scholarship to the Scottscale Artists’ school, to study with Bettina Steinke.
She has portrayed 92 astronaut inductees for the Hall of Heroes at Kennedy Space Center, CEOs, a Senator – and many children. Additionally, she has fulfilled commissions for health care centers from Oregon to Florida, such as Northwestern and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Published in The Best of Portrait Painting, The Best of Flower Painting 2 and Painting More Creatively (North Light Books), her paintings are featured in magazines such as Fine Art Connoisseur, Southwest Art, and American Art Collector; as well as in Pastel Journal and Pastel Artist International.
An award winner and Signature member in seven organizations, including the American Impressionist Society, Oil Painters of America, and Pastel Society of America, Lisa has works in hundreds of collections. These include private and corporate clients such as the American Cancer Society. With eight solo shows to her credit, she participates in many national juried exhibitions such as Women Painting Women, at galleries and museums such as the Butler Institute of American Art and the California Center for the Arts.
