Lisa Bick

I am encaustic artist living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This stark and dramatic landscape feeds my desire to make work that tells my stories-tragic and sweet, beautiful and dark.
Sometimes my muse may be as simple as the grays, blacks and whites of a sycamore tree’s bark or the high altitude desert plants on my daily hikes in the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Other times, inspiration is fired by the painfully beautiful setting sun over the Ganges River on a sojourn there. I find emotional solace in poets from Neruda to Auden and their words find their way into my work as well.
Because of its organic nature, wax can behave differently on any given day, due to pigments, humidity or the level of the heat source used for fusing. There is lots of scraping and smoothing and fussing with each layer of wax but eventually I begin to apply color and design. I often add my own handmade papers or snippets I’ve gathered on travels around the world. I start with deciding whether the work will be “warm or cool”-in other words, reds and oranges and yellows or blues and greens and violets. It varies with the seasons, I find. The wax tends to find its own way but eventually we meet in the middle and something connects with a line from a p...

BFA, Indiana University

1979 Textiles exhibited at Houston Art League
1980 Textiles exhibited at Indianapolis Art League
1983 Photography exhibited at Indiana Artists Show, Indianapolis Museum of Art
2011 Encaustics exhibited in solo gallery showing, Easter Conservation, Indianapolis, IN
2012 Encaustics exhibited in solo gallery showing, Blue Studio Gallery, Bloomington, IN
2012 Encaustics exhibited in group showing, Ivy Tech Columbus Symposium, Columbus, IN 2012 Encaustics and silkscreen exhibited at “One of a Kind Show”, Chicago, IL (a juried show) 2012 “Born Identity” wins Best of Show at “One of a Kind Show”, Chicago, IL
2013 Encaustics exhibited at the Cheveux Gallery, Zionsville, IN
2013 Featured Artist in solo exhibition for Encore Sotheby’s International Realty Artists Series, Indianapolis, IN
2013 Encaustics exhibited at “One of a Kind Show” Chicago, IL
2013 “Up North” featured in Michigan Avenue Magazine in Chicago. Chosen as one of three artists to see at the “One of a Kind Show” which exhibited over 600 artists that year (juried) 2013 Invited to “Nude Attitude” exhibition, Peoria Art Guild
2013 Juried into 3rd Annual National Juried Encaustic/Wax Exhibition at the National Encaustic Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2013 Asked to be included in perm...