Nancy Goodman Lawrence

Myth, Muse and Metaphor #1, Mixed Media on Canvas

2022

"Myth, Muse and Metaphor #9 (How's Your Summer Going So Far?)" is a mixed media painting of acrylic and collage on canvas. It features various abstract organic shapes based on flower...

“Myth, Muse and Metaphor #6” is a mixed media work of acrylic and collage on wood panel featuring creatures in a surreal situation. I take my inspiration from 18th century and me...

Whimsical style is a fun, quirky and playful look that is void of fashion rules. In fact, don't ever stay away from whimsical :) :: Mixed Media :: Contemporary :: This piece comes ...

This is an original acrylic painting on canvas and the 6th in the Creation Series. Lianna's artwork is energetic and packed with bright and vivid colours.This series depicts the begi...

The use of paper is deliberately reminiscent of calligraphy and arabesques. It harks back to a variety of western and eastern influences: Aborigines' myths of origins, Villeglie's t...

A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and sky are tinged a movie musical pale blue and their gear is a bit too colorful for the era of man-hauling. And then there’s the sled, piled high not with boxes of supplies but with a jumbled heap of antiquities: Greek Athenas, bits of a coliseum, a ship’s great wheel. In Jessica Houston’s collage “The Long Haul,” the explorers drag history itself into the great beyond, their backs turned from their absurd load. But we take in the entire scene. In her suite of works, Over the Edge of the World, Houston uses oil on wood, ink on paper, and collages of found images, many from National Geographic Magazine, to rearrange the evidence – and thus history’s possibilities. Houston joins visual artists such as Judit Hersko, Katja Aglert, and Isaac Julien...