lisawray's Profile

From: Springville, PA
Joined: May 19, 2008
www.lisawray.com

About lisawray:

Lisa Wray
"The function of the artist is to provide what life does not" - Tom Robbins
PA-based tradigital fine artist Lisa Wray, one of the earliest pioneers of visual graphic media arts, began developing her unique style more than 2 decades ago in 1983 when the digital age was just dawning. Wray graduated from the Hussian School of Art, Philadelphia PA in 1979. Here she studied commercial and fine art, and training was based on a solid foundation of mastering these classic studies: drawing, painting, illustration, color & design, perspective, photography, advertising, typography, printmaking and art history. She was a freelance artist in the late 1980's, and owned a print shop with her first husband, Thomas Pratt. The marriage ended in 1987. In 1989, she married Angelo Mazzanti (a Marine, former Carlson's Raider) and in 1990 they moved to State College, PA. For four years, while living in State College PA, (before and then during the beginning of the time period when desktop publishing was becoming a reality), Wray was developing her fine art style.
In 1990, when desktop publishing was in its infancy, Lisa began referring to her own unique style as “Renaissance of Metaphysical Imagery®”, whereby prototypes were made for each work from color copies, color photos, and/or film negatives made in her graphic arts darkroom. Around that same time she visited Raphael Digital Transparencies in Houston Texas, and Dodge Color Laboratories in Washington D.C. to study the viability of assembling her first two prototypes, “Brew of Life” and “Fantasy”, on the now considered archaic computers of the late 80s and early 90s. Lisa’s first works were assembled by Dodge Color Laboratories on a Superset machine that was first developed by the Department of Defense. Her final art was archived on 1" magnetic tape, and then output as an 11x14” color film transparency.

Artist Statement
"My goal is to inspire you, as I have been inspired by others throughout the ages. I seek to create beauty, harmony and symmetry giving those of you who can understand, feel and receive beauty, a form of love. I like to think along the lines of Jung in that each one is a type of mandala; "the premonition of a centre of personality, a kind of central point within the psyche, to which everything is related, by which everything is arranged, and which is itself a source of energy."