Lisa Ivory
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Overview
born 1966, London, UK
lives and works in London, UK
Lisa Ivory studied painting at Central Saint Martins School of Art, London, earning her BA in Fine Art, with honors, in 1988. Her paintings have been featured in recent exhibitions at Sim Smith, London; Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York; and Charlie Smith London at the London Art Fair.
Lisa Ivory’s landscapes are commonly occupied by a Wildman, who occasionally interacts with a female human figure. There is a Rake’s Progress of sorts, with a skeletal Death figure interrupting the discourse between these characters. The Beast attempts sympathetic magic by scrawling images into a landscape. These exchanges occur in a shadowland—a liminal space of a half-forgotten landscape that exists simultaneously as rural, urban and wasteland, populated with anomalies, chimeras and spectres.
Ivory’s landscapes are archaic in tone and her archetypal subjects present a paradoxical discourse which includes the feral and tamed; the worshipped and abandoned; the empowered and the subjugated.
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Artworks
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Exhibitions
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Lisa Ivory
Heavy Soul February 15 - March 20, 2024Forthcoming solo presentation of artwork by British artist, Lisa Ivory. To express interest in an exhibition preview, please contact us.Read more -
Slight of Hand
Small works by contemporary artists November 1 - December 22, 2023The 'Slight of Hand' exhibition is an annual survey of small works by contemporary artists, curated by @mepaintsme. 2023 Featured artists: Manuchar Bendeliani, Dietmar Busse, Isabella K. Cancino, Meagan Donegan, Alexandra Duprez, Joseba Eskubi, Marcelo Guidoli, Uwe Henneken, Damien Hoar de Galvan, Lisa Ivory, Tess Jenkins, Casey Jex Smith, Calvin Kim, Alex Kvares, Sarah Lee, David X Levine, Heidrun Rathgeb, ZD Sands, Aurélie Salavert, Christian Schumann, Sebastian Supanz, Takeshi TadatsuRead more -
PAINT HEAVY
Kim Dorland, Joseba Eskubi, Lisa Ivory May 18 - June 21, 2023Mepaintsme is pleased to present Paint Heavy, a group exhibition featuring the paintings of three international artists — Lisa Ivory (UK), Joseba Eskubi (Spain) and Kim Dorland (Canada) — whose distinct, individualistic and personal approach to painting is underscored by a visceral fascination with the materiality of paint.Read more
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