About The Artist

Artist Website: https://www.lisarickard.net EXHIBITS/PUBLICATIONS 2020 December/January Publication of Capella; International Artist Magazine 2019 Nov8-Dec6 Manifest Gallery, Ohio; Group Exhibit: Dark 2019-2020 Finalist, 14th International ARC Salon, permanent exhibit of Capella & Callisto on Art Renewal Center’s website; publication of Capella & Callisto in International Realism ARC Salon Book 2019 Apr26-May4 ArtFields, South Carolina; Annual Exhibit/Competition 2019 Feb18-Mar2 Dacia Gallery, New York; Women Artists' Group Exhibit The nude as an art form has always resonated with Lisa. As a teenager, her first life drawing of a dancer was purchased by an art collector. While attending Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and then the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Lisa continued to draw the nude model regularly. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, she further developed her visual communication skills by graphically designing and technically illustrating on a consecutive full-time basis for an advertising agency, a design firm and a corporate marketing department in a global organization. As a ZUMBA® dance leader, she created her own choreography which served to enrich her artistic anatomy knowledge and expressive design of human form. Painting full-time in her Florida studio, her elegant, delicate and timeless allegorical nudes evoke the dignity yet vulnerability of our shared human condition keeping Lisa at the easel.